The 1990s, which marked the five-hundred year anniversary of Columbus’ “discovery” of the Americas, coincided with the emergence of new additions to the canon of dystopian literature. Produced by authors who are not typically associated with the genre, these novels argue that dystopia is not something we need to imagine because it is already here. Two examples—Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead (1991) and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange (1997)—overly equate our dystopia with the ruinous impact that colonialism and capitalism have on racialized non-white persons.

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Leslie Marmon Silko 的《死者年鉴》和 Karen Tei Yamashita 的《橙线》中的美墨边境闯入

1990 年代标志着哥伦布“发现”美洲五百年，恰逢反乌托邦文学经典中出现了新的补充。这些小说由通常与该类型无关的作者制作，认为反乌托邦不是我们需要想象的东西，因为它已经存在了。两个例子——Leslie Marmon Silko 的死者年鉴（1991）和Karen Tei Yamashita 的Tropic of Orange（1997）——过度将我们的反乌托邦等同于殖民主义和资本主义对种族化非白人的毁灭性影响。