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This chapter provides an historical overview of food in literary utopias, beginning with themes of abundance and agrarian practices in “golden-age” and later literary works associated with political upheaval. The chapter recognizes variations on themes of food security, labor, and land ownership, from Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) to late twentieth- and early twentieth-first century speculative fiction by Samuel Delany, Toni Morrison, and Margaret Atwood.
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Madden, E.M. (2022). Food. In: Marks, P., Wagner-Lawlor, J.A., Vieira, F. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88654-7_34
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