Dystopia in the contemporary fiction: dystopian elements in The Hunger Games
Year: 2017
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In recent times there has been an increase in the production of dystopian literature, which at \nthe current time targets mostly young adults and also teenagers. This dissertation briefly examines the evolution of the utopian and dystopian literary genre talking about some of its \nmost known works up until the present. Then it explains some common elements of this type of fiction throughout contemporary novels which have achieved some success. Next, it studies which dystopian elements are present in the Hunger Games trilogy as it has been quite successful, both in literature and in cinema, as well as being a representative example of this field. Finally, this dissertation aims to find in what ways this trilogy of books written by Suzanne Collins can be considered to belong to the dystopian genre.
Author: Isabel Santos Alonso
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2787632708