UID:
almafu_9961509951302883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) :
,
illustrations
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-009-18821-6
,
1-009-18822-4
,
1-009-18007-X
Series Statement:
Cambridge Companions to Literature
Content:
Providing a comprehensive overview of American thought in the period following World War II, after which the US became a global military and economic leader, this book explores the origins of American utopianism and provides a trenchant critique from the point of view of those left out of the hegemonic ideal. Centring the voices of those oppressed by or omitted from the consumerist American Dream, this book celebrates alternative ways of thinking about how to create a better world through daily practices of generosity, justice, and care. The chapters collected here emphasize utopianism as a practice of social transformation, not as a literary genre depicting a putatively perfect society, and urgently make the case for why we need utopian thought today. With chapters on climate change, economic justice, technology, and more, alongside chapters exploring utopian traditions outside Western frameworks, this book opens a new discussion in utopian thought and theory.
Note:
Introduction : utopianism in dark times / Sherryl Vint -- Pandemics and the lesson of history / Priscilla Wald -- American futures / Phillip E. Wegner -- Engendering utopia : the force of gender and the limits of feminism / Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor -- America and/as White supremacy / Edward K. Chan and Patricia Ventura -- American spirituality / Andrew Tate -- Black escapes and Black wishlands / Jerry Rafiki Jenkins -- Latinx belonging in new world borders : Mestiz@ rhetoric and critical utopian/dystopian dialectics of ambivalence / Rubén R. Mendoza -- Educating desire : young adult utopian fiction / Jonathan Alexander -- Utopia after American hegemony / Peter Boxall -- Technological fantasies / Matthew Wolf-Meyer -- Utopian spaces / Roger Luckhurst -- Environmentalism and ecotopias / Gerry Canavan -- Economic justice / Hugh C. O'Connell -- Renewing democracy / Mathias Nilges -- The time of new histories : utopian possibility in America's twenty-first century / John Rieder.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-009-18006-1
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781009180061
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009180054
Language:
English
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
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