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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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