GLOBAL DYSTOPIAS
Diaz, Junot / Bernhard, Adrienne / Samarawickrama, Sumudu / Anders, Charlie Jane / Costantino, Thea
As the recent success of Margaret Atwood's novel-turned-television hit Handmaid's Tale shows us, dystopia is more than minatory fantasy, it offers a critical lens upon the present. Global Dystopias engages the familiar horrors of George Orwell's 1984 alongside new work by China Miéville, Tananarive Due, and Maria Dahvana Headley. In "Don't Press Charges, and I Won't Sue, ¿ award-winning writer Charlie Jane Anders uses popularized stigmas towar...