Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture Since - 194

"Providing a comprehensive overview of American thought in the period following World War II, this Companion charts how the utopian has been understood in America since the country became a global leader. Individual chapters explore climate change, economic justice, technology, utopian traditions outside Western frameworks, and more"--

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures; List of contributors; Introduction: utopianism in dark times Sherryl Vint; 1. Pandemics and the lesson of history Priscilla Wald; 2. American futures Phillip E. Wegner; 3. Engendering utopia: the force of gender and the limits of feminism Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor; 4. America and/as white supremacy Edward K. Chan and Patricia Ventura; 5. American spirituality Andrew Tate; 6. Black escapes and Black wishlands Jerry Rafiki Jenkins; 7. Latinx belonging in new world borders: Mestiz@ rhetoric and critical utopian/dystopian dialectics of ambivalence Rubén R. Mendoza, Ph.D.; 8. Educating desire: young adult utopian fiction Jonathan Alexander; 9. Utopia after American hegemony Peter Boxall; 10. Technological fantasies Matthew Wolf-Meyer; 11. Utopian spaces Roger Luckhurst; 12. Environmentalism and ecotopias Gerry Canavan; 13. Economic justice Hugh C. O'Connell; 14. Renewing democracy Mathias Nilges; 15. The time of new histories: utopian possibility in America's twenty-first century John Rieder; Works Cited; Index.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Sherryl Vint is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, and of English, at the University of California, Riverside. She is a recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association's Lifetime Achievement and Innovative Research awards. She has published widely on speculative fiction and culture, including most recently Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction (2021).

Zusammenfassung

Providing a comprehensive overview of American thought in the period following World War II, this Companion charts how the utopian has been understood in America since the country became a global leader. Individual chapters explore climate change, economic justice, technology, utopian traditions outside Western frameworks, and more.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sherryl (University of California Vint
• Mitarbeit: Sherryl Vint (Herausgeber), Sherryl (University of California Vint (Herausgeber), Vint Sherryl (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781009180061
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0918006-1
• Seiten: 332
• Serie: Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Climate Change, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, The Americas, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Literary companions, book reviews & guides, Literary companions, book reviews and guides