Abstract
Reading 1984 fifty years after its first publication, one is still embar? rassed by Orwell's grim enactment of utopia as a closed and nightmarish system of manipulative structures beyond human agency or remedy. More than any other literary text in the Western world, this novel evokes the ultimate triumph of totalizing doctrines eschewing social change or readjustment and the futility of individual resistance against repressive structures and ideologies.1 In his seminal study The Womb of Space (1983), Caribbean writer Wilson Harris has challenged the legacy of Orwellian dystopianism and the claustrophobic ritual emerging from it, the ongoing tendency, that is, to fashion either crudely apocalyptic or purely scientific versions of the future:
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