title: O futuro e o passado estão Além da Imaginação: a viagem no tempo e os EUA no contexto do segundo pós-guerra
abstract: The present research starts with the reflection on the development of narratives that display some form of time travel, analyzes its origin in the 19th century and its social function as a mediator between societies, the changes and the permanences. It was investigated how, in the 50s and 60s, a period of remarkable world transformation, the most diverse plots containing time travel expressed how societies, groups and individuals interpreted the present, disseminated perceptions of the past and 