Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase : Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: Altered States -- The Man in the Klein Blue Suit: Searching for Agency in William Gibson's Bigend Trilogy -- The Cultural Logic of Post-Capitalism: Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Popular Dystopia -- Logical Gaps and Capitalism's Seduction in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl -- "The Dystopia of the Obsolete": Lisa Robertson's Vancouver and the Poetics of Nostalgia -- Post-Frontier and Re-Definition of Space in Tropic of Orange -- Our Posthuman Adolescence: Dystopia, Information Technologies, and the Construction of Subjectivity in M.T. Anderson's Feed -- PART II: Plastic Subjectivities -- Woman Gave Names to All the Animals: Food, Fauna, and Anorexia in Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Fiction -- The End of Life as We Knew It: Material Nature and the American Family in Susan Beth Pfeffer's Last Survivors Series -- "The Treatment for Stirrings": Dystopian Literature for Adolescents -- Imagining Black Bodies in the Future -- Brown Girl in the Ring as Urban Policy -- PART III: Spectral Histories -- Archive Failure? Cielos de la tierra's Historical Dystopia -- Love, War, and Mal de Amores: Utopia and Dystopia in the Mexican Revolution -- Culture of Control/Control of Culture: Anne Legault's Récits de Médilhault -- The Sublime Simulacrum: Vancouver in Douglas Coupland's Geography of Apocalypse -- Neoliberalism and Dystopia in U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Fiction -- America and Books Are "Never Going to Die": Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story as a New York Jewish "Ustopia" -- In Pursuit of an Outside: Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers and the Crisis of the Unrepresentable -- Homero Aridjis and Mexico's Eco-Critical Dystopia -- PART IV: Emancipating Genres -- Lost in Grand Central: Dystopia and Transgression in Neil Gaiman's American Gods.

Which Way Is Hope? Dystopia into the (Mexican) Borgian Labyrinth -- Dystopia Now: Examining the Rach(a)els in Automaton Biographies and Player One -- The Romance of the Blazing World: Looking back from CanLit to SF -- "It's not power, it's sex": Jeanette Winterson's The PowerBook and Nicole Brossard's Baroque at Dawn -- Another Novel Is Possible: Muckraking in Chris Bachelder's U.S.! and Robert Newman's The Fountain at the Center of the World -- About the Contributors.

What do literary dystopias reflect about the times? In Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase, contributors address this amorphous but pervasive genre, using diverse critical methodologies to examine how North America is conveyed or portrayed in a perceived age of crisis, accelerated uncertainty, and political volatility.

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