Microutopias and everyday hope /

"In eleven essays of scholarly inquiry encompassing a variety of disciplinary perspectives including literature, visual culture, and media studies, Microutopias and Everyday Hope illuminates the potential for alternative futures that resides in utopian thinking on smaller scales. Reflecting on...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Grønstad, Asbjørn (Editor), Johannessen, Lene M. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026
Subjects:	Utopias. Hope. Utopias in art. Utopias in literature. Utopias in mass media. Utopies. Espérance. Utopies dans l'art. Utopies dans la littérature. Utopies dans les médias. utopian literature.

Table of Contents:

1. Microutopias and everyday hope / Asbjørn Grønstad, Lene Johannessen
2. Unrest and the light of utopia : anarchism and archaeology / Henrik Gustafsson
3. "Don't you tempt me with perfection" : music, death, and utopia / Zoltan Varga
4. Transnational figurations of (micro)utopia in C. N. Adichie's Americanah and K. Waclawiak's How to get into the Twin Palms / Tijana Przulj
5. How to imagine microutopias / Anders Lysne
6. Micro-ecotopic power lines in fantasy literature / Birger Solheim
7. Microutopian ethics / Asbjørn Grønstad
8. Brilliant stacks of cans : the microutopian impulse in White noise / Øyvind Vågnes
9. A working-class return to (micro-)utopia? Presentism, bodies, and nostalgia in Miranda July's Kajillionaire / Henriette Rørdal
10. The politics of everyday life : Orwell and the dispossessed / Randi Koppen
11. Everyday utopias : compasses of hope / Lene Johannessen
12. The possibility of an island : The White Lotus as utopian heterotopia / Janne Stigen Drangsholt.