Table of Contents

Acknowledgements v

Foreword: A. Deniz BOZER vii

Chapter 1: The Fusion of Utopia and Dystopia in The Land of Cockaigne 1

Cemre Mimoza BARTU

Chapter 2: The Dialectic Interplay between Utopia and History: The Republic by Plato and

Thomas More’s Utopia 17

Şafak HORZUM

Chapter 3: Were We Really Born to Breed?: Questioning Women’s Place in the Society in

Katherine Burdekin’s Swastika Night 39

Anıl BADI

Chapter 4: Deconstruction of the Self: Aldous Huxley’s Island as a Utopian Synthesis of Eastern

Philosophy and Western Science 49

Seçil ERKOÇ

Chapter 5: Beyond Humans “At the Age of Men”: Posthumanism and Anthropocene in Gemma

Malley’s The Declaration and Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods 71

Kübra BAYSAL

Chapter 6: From Ecotopia to Ecodystopia: Postnatures and “Survivance” in Sarah Hall’s The

Carhullan Army 87

Kerim Can YAZGÜNOĞLU

Chapter 7: Child Heroes/Heroines in Their Shining Armours to Save the Earth-in-distress:

Environmentally Conscious Dystopic Representations in Sarah Holding’s The

SeaBEAN Trilogy 105

Fatma AYKANAT

Chapter 8: “The Lottery”: A Modern Primitive Dystopia Originating from Religion 135

Ayşe GÜNEŞ

Chapter 9: ‘The Memory Remains’: Dystopian Love in Black Mirror in the Episode of “The

Entire History of You” 149

Başak AĞIN

Chapter 10: Commodified Lives: Human Cloning in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and the

Television Series, Orphan Black 171

Pelin KÜMBET

Notes on Contributors 191