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Kaganovsky, Lilya Kaganovsky, Lilya Littlefield, Melissa M Calderwood, Eric S Rushing, Robert 2022-08 application/pdf en text Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms The student, Meagan Smith, accepted the attached license on 2022-07-12 at 14:07. The student, Meagan Smith, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2022-07-12 at 14:16. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2022-07-14 at 12:58. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #18259 on 2022-11-15 at 18:20:46 Science fiction at the border Smith, Meagan Kathleen 2022-07-14 Science fiction speculative fiction border studies This dissertation examines representations of border walls in speculative fiction. Films and novels analyzed include: What is to be done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky; We by Evgeny Zamyatin; Sleep Dealer, directed by Alex Rivera; the MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood; A Planet for Rent by Yoss; and Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers. Using a theoretical framework that combines biopolitics, Marxist literary analysis and critiques of neoliberalism as well as border studies scholarship, I argue that border walls have been a useful trope in utopian world-building from the industrial and political revolutions of the nineteenth century, through the Cold War and the technological revolution of the twentieth century, and that they remain relevant to both our literary and political imagination in the twenty-first century. Thesis eng https://hdl.handle.net/2142/116221 Copyright 2022 Meagan Smith Ph.D. Dissertation Comparative Literature University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Comparative & World Literature