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“I Was Watching You, Mockingjay”

Surveillance, Tactics, and the Limits of Panopticism

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The Politics of Panem

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Although they are set in the future, dystopias are very much concerned with the present. At their core, they represent an attempt on the part of writers to use literature as a vehicle to examine contemporary social and political issues that could, if left unattended, bring about undesirable consequences for people. Dystopian narratives are not diametrically opposed to utopian literature.

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Connors, S.P. (2014). “I Was Watching You, Mockingjay”. In: Connors, S.P. (eds) The Politics of Panem. Critical Literacy Teaching Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-806-0_6

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