The Cambridge companion to American utopian literature and culture since 1945 /

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 out...

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Other Authors: Vint, Sherryl, 1969- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2024].
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : utopianism in dark times / Sherryl Vint
  • Pandemics and the lesson of history / Priscilla Wald
  • American futures / Phillip E. Wegner
  • Engendering utopia : the force of gender and the limits of feminism / Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor
  • America and/as White supremacy / Edward K. Chan and Patricia Ventura
  • American spirituality / Andrew Tate
  • Black escapes and Black wishlands / Jerry Rafiki Jenkins
  • Latinx belonging in new world borders : Mestiz@ rhetoric and critical utopian/dystopian dialectics of ambivalence / RubĂ©n R. Mendoza
  • Educating desire : young adult utopian fiction / Jonathan Alexander
  • Utopia after American hegemony / Peter Boxall
  • Technological fantasies / Matthew Wolf-Meyer
  • Utopian spaces / Roger Luckhurst
  • Environmentalism and ecotopias / Gerry Canavan
  • Economic justice / Hugh C. O'Connell
  • Renewing democracy / Mathias Nilges
  • The time of new histories : utopian possibility in America's twenty-first century / John Rieder.