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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. 55–72

Utopianism reinstated

The fall and rise of a society in Benni Bødker's Zombie City

| Stockholm University
Article outline
  • Critical utopia and transformative utopianism
  • The grand narrative of zombie fiction
  • Zombie City and the welfare state
  • Re-negotiating the future
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 24 November 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.17.04kos
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