The depiction of utopia and dystopia in modern feminist literature by Marge Piercy and Margaret Atwood
Wiebke Uhlenbroock
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft), course: Female Utopian Literature, language: English, abstract: Utopian fiction has been the center of much literary discussion ever since the publication of its first manifestion in Thomas More’s Utopia from 1516.
Utopian novels aim to show the reader alternate and improved concepts of life by emphasizing the moral and political inadequacies of the society to which it is contrasted. They are usually concerned with sociopolitical issues such as the organization of life in a society, its government and social structures and the distribution of wealth and power.
