Through close readings of North American dystopian texts, I reveal the limitations of Eurocentric dystopian critique and utopian hope and examine the emancipatory potential of decolonial speculative narratives as the critical and imaginative starting point of projects for social change.
However, Unsettling Utopia argues that this critical investment in refiguring utopia as a site of political hope fails to account for utopia’s historic entanglement with histories of colonization and the project of settler colonialism in the Americas. As dystopian writers in recent decades have increasingly embedded narratives of resistance and alternative social orders into their dark visions of the future, scholars in the fields of utopian and science fiction studies have celebrated the genre’s attempts to articulate dystopian critique in a way that rejuvenates utopian imagination as a viable form of radical politics.
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