The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

Herausgeber: Vint, Sherryl

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9781009180054
• ISBN-10: 1009180053
• Artikelnr.: 70436885

Inhaltsangabe

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.