Alumni Faculty Staff Luther College Press Collection.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Memory, Utopian Theory, Counter-Discourse -- A Brief History of Memory's Emergence in Utopian Narratives -- The Critical Utopia and Collective Memory -- Children's/Young Adult Dystopian Fiction and Cultural Amnesia -- Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy and the Dialectic of Trauma.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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