Roles reversed in "The end of this day’s business" by Katharine Burdekin: A utopian dystopian social order
This article aims to introduce the British writer, Katharine Burdekin as a writer of speculative fiction and to critically deal with her literary utopia/dystopia, The End of This Day’s Business (1935, 1989). Burdekin’s brief biographical information, in conjunction with an analysis of her other sign...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/682786 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/682786 https://dx.doi.org/10.15366/ldc2018.10.16.016 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Katharine Burdekin Política de género Esperanza Utopías Distopías Historia |
| Sumario: | This article aims to introduce the British writer, Katharine Burdekin as a writer of speculative fiction and to critically deal with her literary utopia/dystopia, The End of This Day’s Business (1935, 1989). Burdekin’s brief biographical information, in conjunction with an analysis of her other significant work, Swastika Night (1937) is necessary for comprehending her concerns about the future and her utopian impulse. The article presents an analytical approach to the interconnectedness between gender politics, knowledge production and communication, and practice of power in the envisioned world order. It concerns Burdekin’s representation of both the patriarchal and matriarchal world order and discusses her quest for the utopian impulse and constructive social change |
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