Antiutopies critiques post-apocalyptiques.

Contemporary series of books and movies for teenagers and young adults, such as The Giver by Lois Lowry, The City of Ember by Jeanne duPrau, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, Divergent by Veronica Roth or Aeon Flux, imagine a dystopian future in which small communities of survivors from a global (artificial) catastrophe are subject to monstrous genetic, social and mental experiments. Conceived on the pattern of the ancient myth of the Minotaur in Crete, they present the trials that young heroes have to pass in order to survive. The labyrinth is a metaphor for the future dystopian societies; survival from its ordeal, as well as the destruction of the occlusive system, offer a new hope for these "critical dystopias." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]