Transrealism: in pursuit of social change and collective justice in Huxley's Brave New World
Science fiction stories extend the limits of human realities. In that imagined world where things appear different, mysterious, and normless, human measures such as sexism, prejudice, viciousness and other judicial realms are negotiated through atypical lenses. Therefore, what remains noticeable h...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2018
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12887/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12887/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12887/1/21956-78294-1-PB.pdf |
| Summary: | Science fiction stories extend the limits of human realities. In that imagined world where things appear
different, mysterious, and normless, human measures such as sexism, prejudice, viciousness and other judicial
realms are negotiated through atypical lenses. Therefore, what remains noticeable here would be the question if
science fiction is an agent for social change and collective justice and decent mortalities. The main purpose of
this article is to argue how Rudy Rucker's Transrealism -works as an interplay between dream and reality in
which the writer shapes his/her own immediate perceptions in a fantastic way- can carry out this commitment.
The selected text of analysis here will be Aldous Leonard Huxley' Brave New World (1932), which will be
theoretically analyzed based on the doctrine of UN Social Justice in an Open World: The Role of the United
Nations (2006) published under the auspices of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United
Nations Secretariat. The main elements of UN document will be the Six important areas of inequality in the
distribution of goods, opportunities and rights. The implication of the present inquiry would depict the role of
science fiction novels, such as Huxley's Brave New World, to challenge today's human position in the world, to
call for social values for a better community to exist and to restore social justice as a milestone for a fair new
world to live in. |
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