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anti-utopia

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an·ti-u·to·pi·a (nt-y-tp-, nt-)
n.
1. An imaginary place or society characterized by human misery and oppression; a dystopia.
2. A work describing such a place or society.
anti-u·topi·an adj. & n.
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The author of an earlier work on George Orwell, Rodden was stimulated to undertake an investigation of the German Democratic Republic by his perceptions of the similarities between Orwell's anti-utopia in Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Communist political system that arose out of the Soviet occupation of eastern Germany after the Second World War.
Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German ... by Lamberti, Marjorie / Journal of Social History
Thus, what I am suggesting is the possibility that Schuyler, instead of creating a utopia in the Black Empire serials, wrote an anti-Utopia reminiscent of Black No More to once again expose the dangers of race chauvinism.
Black Empire by Gruesser, John C. / African American Review
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