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The politics of the (im)possible [electronic resource] : utopia and dystopia reconsidered / edited by Barnita Bagchi.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Bagchi, Barnita.
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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