The city, in particular, discussed here has its own government, police, and legislature even vigilantes and assailants forming a hierarchy in this urban space. Urban space is a microcosmic representation of an expanded world rather than just a material space and is composed of government, institutions, judiciary, and its other state apparatuses. Urban space refers to the spatiality of the city and city life, as Wolfreys states, “an emerging interdisciplinary formation centered on the problematics of ‘space’, ‘place’ and ‘cultural geography’” (Wolfreys, 2002, p.180). The dystopic city, presented in the chosen narrative, Leila, is a rotting mausoleum of dreams and separations, divided with a wall of resistance and denial. With a socio-politically declined setting, dystopian fiction often depicts a postapocalyptic situation with utmost chaos, instability, and the ruin of a historic past. Dystopian literature is a speculative genre that flourished as a response to utopian literature.
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