Dystopia in the school library... and elsewhere

vendredi 15 novembre 2019
par agnesueur

As part of your assignment to be confronted with more dystopian works, or references to dystopia and the link with their author’s contemporary times, you will present a work around dystopia.

You will review what you have read, listened to, watched... ; explaining (spoiling just a little, for teasing purposes...), saying why you chose that particular work, what you thought of it, and if you would recommend it to your classmates. A link with the worries of the author’s times is welcome, if it is possible.

Here are a few references you can pick from for inspiration :

books or magazine articles you can find in the school library :

- in the dark
- the handmaid’s tale (in French)
- magazine article ’maudits mots’
- article on a dystopian novel by Naomi Alderman

Banksy’s work Dismaland

short stories : https://owlcation.com/humanities/Dystopian-Short-Stories

In newspapers :

articles from The Guardian :
- German sci-fi fans lap up dystopian tales of Brexit Britain
- George Orwell’s dystopia is with us today
- Dystopian fiction tells a pretty everyday story for many women
- Who stands between you and AI dystopia ? These Google activists

article in The independent
- What does our future look like according to dystopian fiction ?
- The Wall by John Lanchester, review : A dystopian novel that is almost unbearably timely
- Years and Years review : Emma Thompson is brilliant in dystopian BBC drama

series : any episode from
- the handmaid’s tale
- black mirror

music
- The Bugles : living in the plastic age
- Radiohead - 2+2=5
- David Bowie - Cygnet Committee