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    Although the role of law is a concern in countless literary genres, perhaps none is more preoccupied with the subject than dystopian fiction. Legal factors are at work, in highly distinctive ways, in almost all dystopian narratives, especially the... more

     

    Although the role of law is a concern in countless literary genres, perhaps none is more preoccupied with the subject than dystopian fiction. Legal factors are at work, in highly distinctive ways, in almost all dystopian narratives, especially the central strain of dystopian literature, from Zamiatin to Suzanne Collins, depicting systematically oppressive governments. The presence of an oppressive legal system or more rarely, the lack of any functioning legal system, is a key instrument or cause whereby a horrific reality is brought into being. In short, there is either too little law or more often, too much law, too much bad law. Law either fails to protect or actively oppresses. ; Der Artikel charakterisiert (in englischer Sprache) das moderne Literatur-Genre des dystopischen Romans als zentrales Medium der literarischen Auseinandersetzung mit Fragen von Recht und Unrecht, insbesondere mit dem Problem der Perversion des Rechts in manifesten oder vorstellbaren Unrechtsregimes. Mitreflektiert wird die Relevanz des Genres im Kontext der Forschung über Literatur und Recht sowie insbesondere für verfassungsrechtliche Fragestellungen. Exemplarisch vorgestellt werden vierzehn dystopische Romane des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts.

     

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    Source: BASE Selection for Comparative Literature
    Language: English
    Media type: Article (edited volume)
    Format: Online
    DDC Categories: 809; 340
    Subjects: dystopian fiction; law and literature; perversion of law; dystopian constitutionalism; dystopian constitutional analysis; dystopischer Roman; fiktionale Literatur; Literatur und Recht; Verfassungsrecht; Unrechtsregime; Perversion des Rechts; History; description; critical appraisal of more than two literatures; Law
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    CC BY-ND 4.0 ; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess