Violence and dystopia: mimesis and sacrifice in contemporary Western dystopian narratives
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Violence and Dystopia:
Mimesis and Sacrifice
in Contemporary Western
Dystopian Narratives
By
Daniel Cojocaru
Cambridge
Scholars
Publishing
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
Chapter One 1
Introduction
1 1 Modern Dystopia 1
1 2 Rene Girard's Mimetic Theory 10
121 Imitative Desire 10
122 Violence and the Sacred 16
123 Girard and the Bible 20
124 Criticism of the Girardian Paradigm 29
1 3 Violence and Dystopia 35
Chapter Two 40
Scarifices
21JG Ballard's Crash - Revolutionary Millenarianism by Car 40
211 TV-violence and Car Culture as Mediators of Reality 42
212 The Crash: Breaking Through the Isolation of the Car 46
213 The Wounds Do Not Heal: Holes in the Baudrillardian
Simulation 48
214 The Scarifice - Sacrifice by Car 52
2 2 Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Rant, and Brad Anderson's
The Machinist 68
221 Palincest in Fight Club 68
222 Rant 82
223 The Machinist 93
Chapter Three 98
Atro city
3 1 Iain Sinclair 99
311 Structuring the Unstructurable 99
312 Downriver I 107
313 Rodinsky's Room 115
314 Downriver II 124
315 Sinclair's Aura 139
316 Scapegoating The Widow 141
viii Violence and Dystopia
3 2 Peter Ackroyd 144
321 Hawksmoor 148
322 Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem 15 1
323 London: The Biography 154
Chapter Four 159
Crowds
41JG Ballard 160
411 High-Rise 160
412 Cocaine Nights, Super-Cannes, Millennium People
and Kingdom Come 167
4 2 Stewart Home 184
421 Come Before Christ and Murder Love 191
422 Defiant Pose, Red Londen and Blow Job 196
4 3 David Peace 207
431 The Red Riding Quartet 207
432 The Miners' Strike of 1984/85 214
433 Battling to the End 217
434 GB84 220
435A Note on Hope in the Red Riding Quartet 233
Chapter Five 238
Violentropy
5 1 Radon Daughters 238
5 2 Margaret Atwood 252
521 The Handmaid's Tale 252
522 Oryx and Crake 264
5 3 Will Self 281
531 Girardian Themes in Will Self's Fiction 281
532 The Book of Dave 295
Chapter Six 305
Conclusion
Bibliography 309
Index 327 |
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