Titlebook: Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society; Patricia Ventura,Edward K. Chan Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and Th

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Frederick Douglass’s Utopia: Searching for the Space of Black FreedomThis chapter examines the relationship between utopia and space in two of Frederick Douglass’s autobiographies, arguing that Douglass presents the desire for a better future as dependent on an appropriate space. It concludes with a reading of . to demonstrate how his utopian desire continued to be e

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The Serial Novel, Nation, and Utopia: An Intratextual Re-reading of Pauline Hopkins’ ual approach, Foster intervenes in the tendency to read nineteenth-century serial novels as standalone texts. Rather, she builds upon the work of textual scholars to re-read . as the product of complex negotiations between editor, author, surrounding texts, and readers. She ultimately finds that Hop

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“Strange Times to Be a Jew”: Themes of Whiteness, Identity, and Sanctuary in the Imagined Jewish Utoing point for world Jewry, and contemporary author Michael Chabon, whose novel . envisioned Sitka, Alaska, as a safe haven for Jews fleeing attacks on Israel. Noah and Chabon offered utopian alternatives to American assimilation—imagining Jewish utopias that fostered ethnic identity while allowing J

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Utopianism, Relativism, Cultural Imperialism: Mike Resnick’s gically devastated Earth to pursue the pre-colonial way of life of the Kikuyu people as an intentional community in outer space. Koriba, Kirinyaga’s narrator, is an elderly storyteller who was exiled back to earth after his people accepted modern technology, despite his insistence they maintain trad

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The White Power Utopia and the Reproduction of Victimized Whitenessial reality, but both novels also contain a eutopian dimension by imagining how white people could separate from US society and create a corrective alternative to multiculturalism and the perception that the government persecutes, in particular, white heterosexual men. This chapter argues that what

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“Something Like a Whole”: The Utopian Promise of Queer Retrosexualitynarrative return to historical primal scenes of pre-Stonewall persecution that subtend post-Stonewall literary and cultural LGBT productions. What motivates this return to the wounds and bruises of history? In what sense can this return be paradoxically theorized as reparatively utopian and thus a h

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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional America: Charles Yu’s Immigrant Utopianismutopianism. Yu deploys the device of a time machine to map, over time, the marginal and invisible spaces to which immigrants are all too often consigned. The quest reveals the crippling melancholy that undergirds one of the most powerful romances of American utopianism: the American Dream. The novel