The Postworld In-Between Utopia and Dystopia

Foreword: A Utopian/Dystopian Spectrum: From Friendship to Fear, From Consent to Coercion Gregory Claeys

Utopia and Dystopia in the 21st Century: Feminism, Intersectionality, and the Rejection of Binarism Katarzyna Ostalska and Tomasz Fisiak

Part I: Between Anthropocenic Dystopia And Ecological Utopia

Chapter 1: In Need of New Narratives: Feminist Ustopian Fiction Challenging the Anthropocene Alessandra Boller

Chapter 2: Post-Anthropocentric Ethics of Care in Turn-of-the-Century Fiction Katarzyna Wieckowska

Chapter 3: Environmental Dys/Utopian Short Stories in Olga Tokarczuk's Opowiadania Bizarne Agnieszka Lowczanin

Part II: The Materiality Of Posthuman Intersections And Speculative Discourse In Fiction And Art

Chapter 4: Critical Hope: Relationalities in 21st-Century Speculative Fiction and Art Dunja M. Mohr

Chapter 5: The Mesotopia: From Speculative Realism To Speculative Artistic Events Tristan Verran

Chapter 6: Neganthropic Architecture(s): Renee Gladman's Speculative Reorientation of Science-Fiction Malgorzata Myk

Part III: Between History And Sexual Politics: Alternate Herstories And Historical Alternatives

Chapter 7: Temporal Politics: Entangling Fictions, Futures, and Histories in Contemporary and Historical Speculative Fiction Adam Stock

Chapter 8: Utopia of Intimacy: "The Fear of the Flesh," Hyper-Sexualisation, Libidinal Exhaustion, and a New Sexual Politics beyond Oedipal (Wo)man Mark Featherstone

Chapter 9: Do Cyborgs Dream of (Becoming) People? The Alternative Non-Human Self in Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me Tomasz Dobrogoszcz

Part IV: In-Between Feminist And Postfeminist Dys/Utopias

Chapter 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 Tolan

Chapter 11: A Rage of Her Own: The Unpredictable Powers of Female Flight in Nnedi Okorafor's The Book of Phoenix Svetlana Stefanova

Chapter 12: Feminist Utopianism in the Posthuman Worlds of Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff and Individutopia by Joss Sheldon Katarzyna Ostalska

Chapter 13: Developing the F-word: Representing Adolescent Womanhood and Race in Young-Adult Dystopian Novels Cristina Paravano

Part V: Beyond The Gender And Structural Binaries In Dys/Utopian Cinema

Chapter 14: Alien Bodies, Alien Selves: Under the Skin (2013) and Beyond Tomasz Fisiak

Chapter 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 Cieslak

Chapter 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