Meaning of uchronia | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternate history, uchronia.
2. An idealized or fictional conception of a particular period of time, especially in the past.
3. An imaginary setting of a work of fiction derived from assuming that a single particular real-world event had occurred differently than it did, causing history to differ from then on; alternate timeline.

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Examples

“Mercier's resort to uchronia, on the other hand, initiates a new paradigm for utopian literature not only by setting action in a specific future chronologically connected to our past and present⟳ but even more crucially by characterizing that future as one belonging to progress⟳ and thus linked causally if not immediately to the reader's time.”

“This uchronia actually exerted some influence⟳ in its time, converting many readers to socialism because they wanted to live⟳ in the world of Bellamy's vision.”

“For Portelli, uchronia comprises 'that amazing scene in which the author imagines what would have⟳ happened if a certain historical event had not taken place⟳'.”

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