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The politics of the (im)possible [electronic resource] : utopia and dystopia reconsidered / edited by Barnita Bagchi.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Utopias--History.
- Utopias.
- Dystopias--History.
- Dystopias.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : SAGE, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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:. - The relationship between utopia/d
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction / Barnita Bagchi
- 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 Khowabnama / Subhoranjan Dasgupta
- Palestine : land of utopias / Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun
- 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-twentieth 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
- Coda : resistance
- Globalization, development, and resistance of utopian dreams to the praxis of dystopian utopia / Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp
- About the editor and contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 81-321-1684-4
- 1-280-66756-7
- 9786613644497
- 81-321-0994-5
- OCLC:
- 794328953
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