Paul Johnston’s futuristic crime fiction Body Politic (1997) presents a dystopian government set in 2020 Edinburgh, where the murder investigation soon transforms itself into the investigation of the whole society.The space of the city opens up to reveal a dysfunctional landscape of dissimulation and becomes a creative space both for the author and the detective

"Paul Johnston's Body Politics: A Speculative Fable"

FIORATO, Sidia
2017-01-01

Abstract

Paul Johnston’s futuristic crime fiction Body Politic (1997) presents a dystopian government set in 2020 Edinburgh, where the murder investigation soon transforms itself into the investigation of the whole society.The space of the city opens up to reveal a dysfunctional landscape of dissimulation and becomes a creative space both for the author and the detective
2017
dystopia
law and literature
body politic
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