Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society. (2019)
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- Book
- Title:
- Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society. (2019)
- Main Title:
- Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society
- Further Information:
- Note: Patricia Ventura, Edward K. Chan.
- Editors:
- Ventura, Patrícia
Chan, Edward K - Contents:
- Part I. Introductories1. Preface; Kenneth M. Roemer2. Introduction; Patricia Ventura3. Aethiopian Devils Are White: Constructions of Race in Early Modern Utopian Texts; Jane CampbellPart II. African American Literatures of Utopia from the Past to the Afrofuture4. The Illusory Promises of Freedom: Frederick Douglass and the Utopia of Liberation; David Lemke5. Intratextual Utopianism in Pauline Hopkins' Of One Blood; Or, the Hidden Self and the Colored American Magazine; Amber Foster6. Inevitable Hell? Eutopia and Race in George S. Schuyler's Black No More; Tarshia Stanley7. Black Power Utopia: Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light, and the Revolutionary Afrofuturism of 1962-1974; Mark Tabone8. Utopianism, Anti-utopianism, and Cultural Appropriation: Mike Resnick's Kirinyaga; Jeffrey Allen Tucker9. Re-Programming the Present: The Dynamism of Black Futurity in Nalo Hopkinson Novels'; Cienna Davis10. Race and Utopia in Mat Johnson's Pym; Julie Fiorelli11. Someone Else's Hell: Utopia in N.K. Jemisin's Dreamblood Duology; Susana Morris12. Afrotopia and Afrofuturism: Seeking a Happy Place in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Nisi Shawl's Everfair; Isiah Lavender IIIPart III. Utopian Literatures of Race and Ethnicity 13. Nineteenth Century American Utopianism and the Attempted Reform of a Native American Tribe: From Fourierist Social Experiment to Mass Murder; Charles W. Nuckolls14. Utopian Citizenship and Contemporary Arab-American Literature; Joseph Donica15. The WhitePart I. Introductories1. Preface; Kenneth M. Roemer2. Introduction; Patricia Ventura3. Aethiopian Devils Are White: Constructions of Race in Early Modern Utopian Texts; Jane CampbellPart II. African American Literatures of Utopia from the Past to the Afrofuture4. The Illusory Promises of Freedom: Frederick Douglass and the Utopia of Liberation; David Lemke5. Intratextual Utopianism in Pauline Hopkins' Of One Blood; Or, the Hidden Self and the Colored American Magazine; Amber Foster6. Inevitable Hell? Eutopia and Race in George S. Schuyler's Black No More; Tarshia Stanley7. Black Power Utopia: Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light, and the Revolutionary Afrofuturism of 1962-1974; Mark Tabone8. Utopianism, Anti-utopianism, and Cultural Appropriation: Mike Resnick's Kirinyaga; Jeffrey Allen Tucker9. Re-Programming the Present: The Dynamism of Black Futurity in Nalo Hopkinson Novels'; Cienna Davis10. Race and Utopia in Mat Johnson's Pym; Julie Fiorelli11. Someone Else's Hell: Utopia in N.K. Jemisin's Dreamblood Duology; Susana Morris12. Afrotopia and Afrofuturism: Seeking a Happy Place in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Nisi Shawl's Everfair; Isiah Lavender IIIPart III. Utopian Literatures of Race and Ethnicity 13. Nineteenth Century American Utopianism and the Attempted Reform of a Native American Tribe: From Fourierist Social Experiment to Mass Murder; Charles W. Nuckolls14. Utopian Citizenship and Contemporary Arab-American Literature; Joseph Donica15. The White Nationalist Utopia and the Reproduction of Victimized Whiteness; Edward K. Chan16. "Strange Times to be a Jew"—Themes of Whiteness, Identity, and Sanctuary in the Imagined Jewish Utopias of Grand Island and Sitka; Justin Nordstrom17. Looking Inward: Charles Yu and the Impossibility of Private Utopias; Betsy Huang18. The Tale of the Tattoo: Latino/Americans, Race, and Utopia in Ink; Tace Hedrick and Karina Vado. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Copyright Date:
- 2019
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (311 pages)
- Subjects:
- Culture-Study and teaching
United States-Study and teaching
America-Literatures
Ethnology-Latin America
Literary Criticism -- American -- General
Social Science -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies
Social Science -- General
Literature: history & criticism
Cultural studies
Comparative literature
African Americans - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783030194703
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783030194697
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