چکیده

Worlding agendas occupy a large part of science fiction concerned with man’s migration to other spaces and populating them. These agendas require a large scale of calculations, speculations, and practice considering the issues of dealing with extraterrestrial beings, terraforming the land, and shaping new governmental patterns, and social as well as economic structures. These agendas usually focus on the process of the formation of new societies or the recapitulation of the old ones and the consequent social structures and class systems. Here, the elite play a central role in the construction of the new space and the new society, taking the lead in exerting power over the indigenous populations and forcing radical alterations on them. In this line, Iraj Fazel Bakhsheshi, who emerged almost two decades ago as a brilliant Iranian writer, renders diverse worlding agendas and models for the construction of new worlds whereby questions of race, class, governance, gender, and specifically elitism, are emphasized and investigated. The present essay aims at exploring these questions through a network of contemporary approaches to elitism by drawing on theories proposed by C. Wright Mills’s ‘power elite’ among others. Read in the light of elite theories, Fazel Bakhsheshi’s mentioned novels will hopefully render a rich array of models for social structure, class oppression, racial struggle, colonialism and elitist governance. These models, i.e. the building blocks of the worlding agendas in the mind of the author, sketch the way diverse elitist influences cause the demise of the very ideal worlds they have constructed.

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Fazel Bakhsheshi, Elitism, SF Novel, C. Wright Mill, the Political Elite, Worlding Agendas

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