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In today's western society the concept of Utopia is no longer valid and hence the genre bearing the name is no longer in existence on earth.
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... In today's western society the concept of Utopia is no longer valid and hence the genre bearing the name is no longer in existence on earth. "It is the dream of a just society, which seems to haunt the human imagination ineradicably and in all ages"1 Before starting my presentation on the ambiguous genre of "utopian fiction" I feel it a necessity to provide my definition of what it actually means for a text to be utopian or dystopian, as often the context of the word determines its meaning. It is widely understood that the genre "utopian fiction" encompasses the sub-genres of the utopian, eutopian, dystopian, anti-utopian, utopian satire, heterotopian, and cacotopian. Though these are considered essentially the same there are subtle differences, which for our purpose we can thankfully afford to ignore. But it is important still to look at the two main branches that the genre has spawned - the














