HYBRIDITY AND HETEROTOPIAS IN CHINA MIÉVILLE’S WEIRD WORLD OF BAS-LAG

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Özkuzey, Özden Barışcan

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This thesis analyzes China Miéville’s imaginary world of Bas-Lag, constructed in his novel series consisting of Perdido Street Station, The Scar and The Iron Council, with an analytic focus on the second and third novels of the series. It analyzes his utilization of the concepts of socio-cultural and biological hybridity and also examines the significance, position and relevance of Foucaultian heterotopias in Miéville’s worldbuilding. Miéville uses the concepts of hybridity and heterotopias as essential and characteristic parts of his worldbuilding, and the aim of the thesis is therefore to show how Miéville’s Weird variant of worldbuilding uses these concepts, in the context of both the history of the term worldbuilding and its New Weird variant(s), whose existence has been contested.

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Literature, English Literature, Fantasy Literature, Worldbuilding, Hybridity, Heterotopia, Weird, New Weird

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Ö. B. Özkuzey, “HYBRIDITY AND HETEROTOPIAS IN CHINA MIÉVILLE’S WEIRD WORLD OF BAS-LAG,” M.A. - Master of Arts, Middle East Technical University, 2022.