Nostalgia and the Dialectics of Contemporary Feminisms in The Handmaid’s Tale.
In this article, we turn our gaze to the television series The Handmaid’s Tale to examine different critical aspects of nostalgia in relation to contemporary and previous feminist debates. Our purpose is to analyze not only the series’ different approaches to nostalgia but also to question the type...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 76 - 93 |
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