Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature
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Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature

Memory of the Future

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
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Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature

Memory of the Future

About this book

For a genre that imagines possible futures as a means of critiquing the present, utopian/dystopian fiction has been surprisingly obsessed with how the past is remembered.

Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature: Memory of the Future examines modern and contemporary utopian/dystopian literature's preoccupation with memory, asserting that from the nineteenth century onward, memory and forgetting feature as key problematics in the genre as well as sources of the utopian impulse. Through a series of close readings of utopian/dystopian novels informed by theory and dialectics, Hanson provides a case study history of how and why memory emerged as a problem for utopia, and how recent dystopian texts situate memory as a crucial mode of utopian agency. Hanson demonstrates that many modern and contemporary writers of the genre consider the presence of certain forms of memory as necessary to the project of imagining better societies or to avoiding possible dystopian outcomes.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Preface
  9. Introduction: Memory, Utopian Theory, Counter-Discourse
  10. 1 A Brief History of Memory’s Emergence in Utopian Narratives
  11. 2 The Critical Utopia and Collective Memory
  12. 3 Children’s/Young Adult Dystopian Fiction and Cultural Amnesia
  13. 4 Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy and the Dialectic of Trauma
  14. Works Cited
  15. Index