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critical utopia: a standalone construct

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utopian fiction that keeps the utopian impulse while showing the flaws of its own good society and rejecting utopia as a fixed blueprint.

In genre theory, critical utopia refers to utopian fiction that keeps the utopian impulse while showing the flaws of its own good society and rejecting utopia as a fixed blueprint. This meaning comes from Moylan (1986) in Demand the Impossible.[1]

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demand4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs genre3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs good2 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Moylan, T. (1986). Demand the Impossible. Methuen. ISBN 9780416000122

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