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The Concept of Post-Pessimism in 21st Century Dystopian Fiction

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on recent dystopias and the kind of pessimism displayed within their narrative frame-works: written in an era of Fisher’s “capitalist realism,” contemporary dystopias like Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005) and M. T. Anderson’s Feed (2002) are informed by the late-Fukuyamaist notion of non-alternatives to neoliberal capitalism, most notable by the absence of a subplot or resistance. These two novels spearhead a contemporary literary movement that presents readers a world void of alternatives besides neoliberal capitalism. The author refers to this with the term “post- pessimism,” i.e. the understanding that neither an optimistic nor pessimistic attitude is justified due to the lack of alternatives.

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