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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Other Authors: Bagchi, Barnita (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: New Delhi : SAGE India, 2012.
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505 0 |a 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. 
505 8 |a 8 -- 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. 
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