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This module will explore how the contemporary is represented through speculative, dystopian fiction and imagined futures. We will analyse key texts from the past 35 years in terms of their visions of the future, and the concerns they represent. This module will ask how dystopian fictions critique contemporary concerns and structures: politics, patriarchy, racism, climate change, poverty, technology? We will ask if dystopian fiction can produce utopias or offer solutions? Or warnings about the contemporary moment? Texts include: Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale Iain M Banks, The State of the Art Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God Emily St John Mandel, Station Eleven Naomi Alderman, The Power PLEASE NOTE that the School of English, Drama and Film reserves the right to withdraw modules in the period up to and including the first week of the teaching trimester.