EXACERBATED CAPITALISM AND GLIMPSES OF FAILED COMMUNISM IN MARGARET ATWOOD’S MADDADDAM AND SUZANNE COLLINS’S THE HUNGER GAMES
EXACERBATED CAPITALISM AND GLIMPSES OF FAILED COMMUNISM IN MARGARET ATWOOD’S MADDADDAM AND SUZANNE COLLINS’S THE HUNGER GAMES
Author(s): Adela Livia CătanăSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: capitalism; communism; globalization; specialized economy; discrepancy
Summary/Abstract: This article aims to compare the socio-economic systems described by Margaret Atwood and Suzanne Collins in their recently published critical utopian trilogies ŔMaddAddam and The Hunger GamesŔ and reveal the ways in which these authors perceived and translated into literature past and present ideologies in order to sound a warning signal regarding the future of the Western society.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 08
- Page Range: 367-374
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English