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Dystopian thinking
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The Diagnostic Function of Young Adult Novels
For me they have a kind of diagnostic function. I'm reading a novel from 1936 by Storm Janison called In The Second Year. And it is following very closely over the space of about eight weeks, a sort of a next stage of a fascist coup in Britain. So they have this diagnostic function. It's almost like they reveal something that's repressed. Does it matter if the diagnosis isn't correct, Sarah?
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