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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 white North America. Equally, utopian and dystopian thought and practice are and have always been gendered. Utopia, memory and temporality often intersect in strange and surprising ways.
Three dimensions are thus central to the enterprise undertaken in this volume:
1 The relationship between utopia/dystopia and time/memory
2 The focus on Europe and areas outside Europe at the same time
3 The gendered analysis of utopia/dystopia
Contributors to this volume include prominent experts in fields as varied as Development Studies, Cultural Studies, Women's Studies and Literature.
Contents
Introduction - Barnita Bagchi
PART ONE: UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA: DEBATES AND RESONANCES
Utopia: Future and/or Alterity? - Miguel Abensour
Echo of an Impossible Return: An Essay Concerning Fredric Jameson's Utopian Thought and Gathering and Hunting Social Relations - Peter Kulchyski
Radicalism in Early Modern England: Innovation or Reformation? - Rachel Foxley
Dystopia, Utopia, and Akhtaruzzaman Elias's Novel Khowabnam - Subhoranjan Dasgupta
Palestine: Land of Utopias - Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun
PART TWO: ENGENDERING UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA
'One Darling though Terrific Theme': Anna Wheeler and the Rights of Women - Theresa Moriarty
A Parliament of Women: Dystopia in Nineteenth-century Bengali Imagination - Samita Sen
'Empire Builder': A Utopian Alternative to Citizenship for Early 20th Century British 'Ladies' - Martine Spensky
Ladylands and Sacrificial Holes: Utopias and Dystopias in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's Writings - Barnita Bagchi
Utopia in the Subjunctive Mood: Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather - Modhumita Roy
PART THREE: CONCLUSION
Globalization, Development and Resistance of Utopian Dreams to the Praxis of Dystopian Utopia - Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp
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