Reaching Beyond the Literary : Dystopias and Political Activism

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Reaching Beyond the Literary : Dystopias and Political Activism

PLEVÍKOVÁ, Ivana

Základní údaje

Originální název

Reaching Beyond the Literary : Dystopias and Political Activism

Autoři

PLEVÍKOVÁ, Ivana

Vydání

Margaret Atwood 80: Central European Interpretations, 28-29 November, 2019, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary and Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, 2019

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Maďarsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova česky

Margaret Atwood; politický aktivismus; dystopické světy; literatura

Klíčová slova anglicky

Margaret Atwood; political activism; dystopian worlds; literature

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 3. 4. 2021 10:35, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

The paper analyzes dystopian worlds being appropriated in the contemporary setting for the purposes of social, political, or environmental activism as well as reactional forms of art. It explores how dystopian worlds alternate between the state of active creation by the author and static phase of being finished, as described by Linda Hutcheon in The Canadian Postmodern, and again an active phase of being interpreted, reformed, repurposed in another time and space. Utilizing the theories of Lubomír Doležel, specifically the three degrees of historical-knowledge recovery which he introduces in his work Possible Worlds of Fiction and History, the paper explores new ways in which historical or factual events encoded in dystopian novels are reconstructed and reused. The paper concentrates on several dystopian stories including Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Heart Goes Last, as well as others such as the story of Noah’s Ark from the book of Genesis, George Orwell’s Animal Farm, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Further, the paper emphasizes the performative aspect embedded in certain occurrences of activism and draws upon the theories of Augusto Boal and Erika Fischer-Lichte whose scholarships both revolve around the topic of performance and the spectator of an artwork becoming the active force of change. Via the activism described, one may not only notice the interplay between the past, present, and future, but also ways in which the imaginary may extrapolate what the world might look like if the interpretations of these activists are made real.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1396/2018, interní kód MU

Název: Researching Communication in English: Paradigms, Strategies, Developments (Akronym: RCE)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Researching Communication in English: Paradigms, Strategies, Developments, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

PLEVÍKOVÁ, Ivana. Reaching Beyond the Literary : Dystopias and Political Activism. In Margaret Atwood 80: Central European Interpretations, 28-29 November, 2019, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary and Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. 2019.

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PLEVÍKOVÁ, Ivana. Reaching Beyond the Literary : Dystopias and Political Activism. In \textit{Margaret Atwood 80: Central European Interpretations, 28-29 November, 2019, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary and Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary}. 2019.

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