Postworld In-Between Utopia and Dystopia

Tomasz Fisiak is Assistant Professor in the Department of British Literature and Culture, Institute of English Studies, University of Lodz. His book She-(d)evils? The Construction of a Female Tyrant as a Cultural Critique was published in 2020 by Peter Lang. His academic interests include Gothic fiction/cinema, gender/queer/feminist issues, dys/utopian fiction, and popular/pulp culture. He is a member of the editorial team of Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture. He is currently a team member of the project Word, Sound and Image: Intertextuality in Music Videos no. 2019/33/B/HS2/00131 financed by National Science Centre in Poland.Katarzyna Ostalska is Associate Professor in the Department of British Literature and Culture at the University of Lodz, Poland. She is the head of the Posthumanities Research Centre at the Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz. She holds a PhD and postdoctoral degree (habilitation) in literature. Her research includes contemporary British and Irish literature and culture, particularly Irish women poets, gender studies, posthumanism, speculative fiction, animal studies, ecofeminism, and film studies. Her post-doctoral monograph Towards Female Empowerment—The New Generation of Irish Women Poets: Vona Groarke, Sinéad Morrissey, Caitríona O’Reilly, and Mary O’Donoghue was published in 2015. She co-edited two collections of essays and a journal’s special issue on speculative fiction (2020).

• Foreword: A Utopian/Dystopian Spectrum: From Friendship to Fear, From Consent to Coercion Gregory ClaeysUtopia and Dystopia in the 21st Century: Feminism, Intersectionality, and the Rejection of Binarism Katarzyna Ostalska and Tomasz FisiakPart I: Between Anthropocenic Dystopia And Ecological UtopiaChapter 1: In Need of New Narratives: Feminist Ustopian Fiction Challenging the Anthropocene Alessandra BollerChapter 2: Post-Anthropocentric Ethics of Care in Turn-of-the-Century Fiction Katarzyna WięckowskaChapter 3: Environmental Dys/Utopian Short Stories in Olga Tokarczuk’s Opowiadania Bizarne Agnieszka ŁowczaninPart II: The Materiality Of Posthuman Intersections And Speculative Discourse In Fiction And ArtChapter 4: Critical Hope: Relationalities in 21st-Century Speculative Fiction and Art Dunja M. MohrChapter 5: The Mesotopia: From Speculative Realism To Speculative Artistic Events Tristan VerranChapter 6: Neganthropic Architecture(s): Renee Gladman’s Speculative Reorientation of Science-Fiction Małgorzata MykPart III: Between History And Sexual Politics: Alternate Herstories And Historical AlternativesChapter 7: Temporal Politics: Entangling Fictions, Futures, and Histories in Contemporary and Historical Speculative Fiction Adam StockChapter 8: Utopia of Intimacy: "The Fear of the Flesh," Hyper-Sexualisation, Libidinal Exhaustion, and a New Sexual Politics beyond Oedipal (Wo)man Mark FeatherstoneChapter 9: Do Cyborgs Dream of (Becoming) People? The Alternative Non-Human Self in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me Tomasz DobrogoszczPart IV: In-Between Feminist And Postfeminist Dys/UtopiasChapter 10: Twenty-First Century Gileads: Feminist Dystopian Fiction after Atwood—The Handmaid’s Tale, The Natural Way of Things, The Water Cure, and The Testaments Fiona TolanChapter 11: A Rage of Her Own: The Unpredictable Powers of Female Flight in Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix Svetlana StefanovaChapter 12: Feminist Utopianism in the Posthuman Worlds of Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff and Individutopia by Joss Sheldon Katarzyna OstalskaChapter 13: Developing the F-word: Representing Adolescent Womanhood and Race in Young-Adult Dystopian Novels Cristina ParavanoPart V: Beyond The Gender And Structural Binaries In Dys/Utopian CinemaChapter 14: Alien Bodies, Alien Selves: Under the Skin (2013) and Beyond Tomasz FisiakChapter 15: Dys/utopian Narratives on the Screen: Beyond the Binaries in Children of Men and The Lobster Emrah Atasoy Chapter 16: Zombie Mayhem in Austen’s Hertfordshire—Intersectionality of Class and Gender Politics in Burr Steers’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Magdalena CieślakChapter 17: "Where did all you zombies come from?" Gendered Pasts, Presents and Futures in Robert Heinlein’s "All You Zombies" and the Film Adaptation Predestination Emily Cox-Palmer-White