Carter F. Hanson

Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature

Memory of the Future

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines utopian/dystopian fiction's enduring preoccupation with memory, asserting through readings of seminal texts that from the nineteenth century onward, memory and forgetting feature as key problematics in the genre as well as vital sources of the utopian impulse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9780367536305
• ISBN-10: 0367536307
• Artikelnr.: 67823482

Autorenporträt

Carter F. Hanson is Professor of English at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana. He is the author of Emigration, Nation, Vocation: The Literature of English Emigration to Canada, 1825-1900 (Michigan State UP, 2009), as well as articles on utopian/dystopian literature and utopianism published in Extrapolation, Science Fiction Studies, Utopian Studies, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, and Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Memory, Utopian Theory, Counter-Discourse
Chapter One: A Brief History of Memory's Emergence in Utopian Narratives
Chapter Two: The Critical Utopia and Collective Memory
Chapter Three: Children's/Young Adult Dystopian Fiction and Cultural
Amnesia
Chapter Four: Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy and the Dialectic of
Trauma

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Preface

Introduction: Memory, Utopian Theory, Counter-Discourse

Chapter One: A Brief History of Memory's Emergence in Utopian Narratives

Chapter Two: The Critical Utopia and Collective Memory

Chapter Three: Children's/Young Adult Dystopian Fiction and Cultural Amnesia

Chapter Four: Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy and the Dialectic of Trauma

Rezensionen

"Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature: Memory of the Future offers a highly original, wide-ranging, theoretically informed discussion of the role of memory in utopian and dystopian literature. The book breaks new ground on various fronts by putting forward innovative readings of familiar texts in the context of a fascinating dialogue between utopian studies and memory studies. A noteworthy contribution to our understanding of utopias and dystopias."

- Sean Seeger, University of Essex, UK