1st Edition
Memory and Utopian Agency in Utopian/Dystopian Literature Memory of the Future
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
Biography
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.
"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
