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

Memory of the Future

Carter F. Hanson

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Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature

Memory of the Future

Carter F. Hanson

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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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
ISBN
9781000165951
Edition
1
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Critica letteraria nella fantascienza

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APA 6 Citation

Hanson, C. (2020). Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature (1st ed.). Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1584034/memory-and-utopian-agency-in-utopiandystopian-literature-memory-of-the-future-pdf (Original work published 2020)

Chicago Citation

Hanson, Carter. (2020) 2020. Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perlego.com/book/1584034/memory-and-utopian-agency-in-utopiandystopian-literature-memory-of-the-future-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Hanson, C. (2020) Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature. 1st edn. Taylor and Francis. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1584034/memory-and-utopian-agency-in-utopiandystopian-literature-memory-of-the-future-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Hanson, Carter. Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis, 2020. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.