"By asking questions such as "What are the distinctive qualities of post-NAFTA North American dystopian literature?" and "What does this literature reflect about the tensions and contradictions of the inchoate continental community of North America?" Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase serves to resituate dystopian writing within a particular geo-social setting and introduce a productive means to understand both North American dystopian writing and its relevant engagements with a restricted, mapped reality."--Publishers website.;The Man in the Klein Blue Suit: Searching for Agency in William Gibson's Bigend Trilogy / Janine Tobeck -- The Cultural Logic of Post-Capitalism: Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" and Popular Dystopia / Carl F. Miller -- Logical Gaps and Capitalism's Seduction in Larissa Lai's "Salt Fish Girl" / Sharlee Reimer -- "The Dystopia of the Obsolete": Lisa Robertson's Vancouver and the Poetics of Nostalgia / Paul Stephens -- Post-Frontier and Re-Definition of Space in Tropic of Orange / Hande Tekdemir -- Our Posthuman Adolescence: Dystopia, Information Technologies, and the Construction of Subjectivity in M.T. Anderson's "Feed" / Richard Gooding -- Woman Gave Names to All the Animals: Food, Fauna, and Anorexia in Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Fiction / Annette Lapointe -- The End of Life as We Knew It: Material Nature and the American Family in Susan Beth Pfeffer's Last Survivors Series / Alexa Weik von Mossner -- "The Treatment for Stirrings": Dystopian Literature for Adolescents / Joseph Campbell -- Imagining Black Bodies in the Future / Gregory Hampton -- "Brown Girl in the Ring" as Urban Policy / Sharon DeGraw -- Archive Failure? "Cielos de la tierra's" Historical Dystopia / Zac Zimmer -- Love, War, and "Mal de Amores": Utopia and Dystopia in the Mexican Revolution / Maria Odette Canivell -- Culture of Control/Control of Culture: Anne Legault's "Recits de Medilhault" / Lee Skallerup Bessette -- The Sublime Simulacrum: Vancouver in Douglas Coupland's Geography of Apocalypse / Robert McGill -- Neoliberalism and Dystopia in U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Fiction / Lysa Rivera -- America and Books are "Never Going to Die": Gary Shteyngart's "Super Sad True Love Story" as a New York Jewish "Ustopia" / Marleen S. Barr -- In Pursuit of an Outside: Art Spiegelman's "In the Shadow of No Towers" and the Crisis of the Unrepresentable / Thomas Stubblefield -- Homero Aridjis and Mexico's Eco-Critical Dystopia / Adam Spires -- Lost in Grand Central: Dystopia and Transgression in Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" / Robert T. Talley, Jr. -- Which Way is Hope? Dystopia into the (Mexican) Borgian Labyrinth / Luis Gomez Romero -- Dystopia Now: Examining the Rach(a)els in "Automation Biographies" and "Player One" / Kit Dobson -- The Romance of the Blazing World: Looking Back from CanLit to SF / Owen Percy -- "It's not power, it's sex": Jeanette Winterson's "The PowerBook" and Nicole Brossard's "Baroque at Dawn" / Helene Staveley -- Another Novel is Possible: Muckraking in Chris Bachelder's "U.S.!" and Robert Newman's "The Fountain at the Center of the World" / Lee Konstantinou.