Worlds Apart?

Dunja M. Mohr is the co-editor of the Erfurt Electronic Studies in English and is a faculty member, research assistant, and lecturer at the University of Erfurt in Germany. She has widely published on utopian and dystopian novels and is a recipient of the Margaret Atwood Society Award. She lives in Munich.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction      Part I. Literary History and Theoretical Background1. The Classical Vision: Utopia, Dystopia, and Science Fiction      2. Demanding the Possible? The Artificiality of Boundaries      Part II. Textual Analyses3. Rewriting the Colonization of Physical and Mental Space: Suzette Haden Elgin’s Native Tongue Trilogy      4. Beyond Separate Worlds and War: Suzy McKee Charnas’s Holdfast Series      5. The Poetic Discourse of the Split Self: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale      Conclusion      Appendix: “First you are human”: An Interview with Suzy McKee Charnas      Bibliography      Index

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