Dystopia : a  review

Finn, Stephen Marcus

dc.contributor.author	Finn, Stephen Marcus
dc.date.accessioned	2010-09-30T06:14:40Z
dc.date.available	2010-09-30T06:14:40Z
dc.date.issued	2009
dc.description.abstract	Conzalo’s utopia is seen to be a chimera, something impossible to achieve, something which will be in no place, the meaning of utopia. The opposite of this is, of course, ‘dystopia’, with its connotation of disorder, discord, disruption, disillusion. Its meaning is the opposite of both connotations of utopia (perfect place and no place): unpleasant place – or every place. Therefore, the imaginative portrayal of dystopia shows us what is around us, what besets our psyches and our societies. To overcome this, priests and prophets, politicians and philosophers, artists and writers, on occasion try to show us how to attain utopia. Because of the human condition, this, however, is always doomed to failure.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Finn, S 2009, 'Dystopia : a review', De Arte, no. 80, pp. 54-62. [http://journals.sabinet.co.za/ej/ejour_dearte.html or http://www.unisa.ac.za/default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=20117]	en
dc.identifier.issn	0004-3389
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/14946
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of South Africa Press	en_US
dc.rights	© University of South Africa Press	en_US
dc.subject	Anti-utopias	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Dystopias	en
dc.title	Dystopia : a review	en
dc.type	Article	en