MIKRODYSTOPIE JAKO KONSTRUKTY SPOŁECZNO-POLITYCZNE W NARRACJACH POSTAPOKALIPTYCZNYCH
Micro-dystopias as Socio-political Constructs in Post-apocalyptic Narratives

Summary/Abstract: In the past few years there has been a growing interest in depicting permanently sieged strongholds, secluded last stands, or quarantined asylums within a post-apocalyptic world so as to strengthen the sense of the ultimate isolation and disconnection from the desolated world without. A majority of those narratives share a similar world-model, featuring an over-crowded, fortified refuge and its ruler who abuses the trust bestowed upon him by turning an utopian sanctuary into a dystopian confine-ment. This means that the society in such a world faces two actual threats: one imminent, being a zombie apocalypse, bands of scavengers, or contagion that banish people from their homelands – thereby forcing a refuge – and the other one, concealed, that reveals itself when everything seems to be under control. Those places can be described as micro-dystopias.

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