The politics of the (im)possible : utopia and dystopia reconsidered /
This volume brings together articles on utopia and dystopia in a breadth of disciplines--history, literature, gender studies, political science, sociology, anthropology, and Native American Studies. Utopia and dystopia are modes and resonances present in all parts of the world, not just Europe and w...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | New Delhi : SAGE India, 2012. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1
- Introduction; PART I: Utopia and Dystopia: Debates and Resonances; 2
- Utopia: Future and/or Alterity?; 3
- Echo of an Impossible Return: An Essay Concerning Fredric Jameson's Utopian Thought and Gathering and Hunting Social Relations; 4
- Radicalism in Early Modern England: Innovation or Reformation?; 5
- Dystopia, Utopia, and Akhtaruzzaman Elias's Novel Khowabnama; 6
- Palestine: Land of Utopias; PART II: Engendering Utopia and Dystopia; 7
- 'One Darling Though Terrific Theme': Anna Wheeler and the Rights of Women.
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- A Parliament of Women: Dystopia in Nineteenth-century Bengali Imagination9
- 'Empire Builder': A Utopian Alernative to Citizenship for Early twentieth-century British 'Ladies; 10
- Ladylands and Sacrificial Holes: Utopias and Dystopias in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's Writings; 11
- Utopia in the Subjunctive Mood: Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather; PART III: Coda: Resistance; 12
- Globalization, Development, and Resistance of Utopian Dreams to the Praxis of Dystopian Utopia; About the Editor and Contributors; Index.