Article: Utopias of/f Language in Contemporary Feminist Literary Dystopias(*).(Critical Essay)

"... language is power, life, and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation."

--Carter, 77.

I. Introduction:

FUTURISTIC DYSTOPIAS ARE STORIES ABOUT LANGUAGE. This is true, firstly, in the sense that ultimately all fictional works are narcissistic and metafictional, i.e., besides telling a `surface' tale, they also tell the story of their own existence (their possibility and limitations) as cultural artefacts concretized via the specific medium of language. Secondly, because all speculative fictions are characterized by a special type of metafictionality, being `more' metafictional than other (realistic, or mimetic) ...

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