A DYSTOPIAN VIEW OF BERLIN IN 2039: THE DYSTOPIAN REFLECTIONS IN THE WORK WIR WAREN HIER BY NANA RADEMACHER
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This paper is intended to introduce Nana Rademacher,
one of the contemporary female science fiction writers in Germany, and to study
her work Wir Waren Hier (We Were Here,
2016) which has been seen as an anti-utopian fiction by different critics. In
this study, the focus is on anti-utopia which has become a popular literary
genre as a result of social, economic and political disappointment experienced
in the 20th and 21st centuries. The protagonist, fifteen-year-old Anna, lives
in a devastated Berlin which lies in ruins following several years of
inter-state conflict which has now been under the hegemony of civil war and
military rule. Self-preservation and lawlessness has become the order of the
day. Anna’s perspective on her broken world is passionate, strange, harsh and
desperate, but also full of hope. This is the story of a girl searching for a
way forward in spite of all the obstacles, and who is fighting for life, love
and freedom. The struggle for existence/survival in an authoritarian-totalitarian
system, as an important characteristic of an anti-utopian society, is one of
the basic topics which is fictionalized by Rademacher and narrated by Anna
within the work. Extremities, hopelessness, violence, war and the end of the
mankind as a result of technology take place in this work. This study aims to
determine whether and to what extent the work of Rademacher occurs as
an anti-utopian book and how it makes Berlin a part of anti-utopian world.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
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Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Yayımlanma Tarihi
22 Haziran 2017
Gönderilme Tarihi
5 Aralık 2016
Kabul Tarihi
8 Şubat 2017
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2017 Sayı: 37