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Nordic Utopias and Dystopias: From Aniara to Allatta!
Edited by Pia Maria Ahlbäck, Jouni Teittinen and Maria Lassén-Seger
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 17] 2022
► pp. 197–212

Who is in power, you say?

Two young adult dystopias from modern day Scandinavia

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Article outline
  • Exploration of power and reflections on history
  • Relations and growth in a new world
  • Hero-figures and story structure in the two worlds
  • Criticising society without a society: Dystopia in a vacuum
  • The implied audience and power
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 24 November 2022
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