M. KEITH BOOKER is Associate Professor of English and director of Graduate Studies at the University of Arkansas. He has published numerous articles on literature and literary theory and is the author of several books, including The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature and Dystopian Literature, both published by Greenwood Press in 1994.DUBRAVKA JURAGA is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Arkansas. A former Fulbright Scholar from Yugoslavia, she has published numerous translations and articles on literature and culture in both the United States and Europe.

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