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The politics of the impossible : Utopia and dystopia reconsidered

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Publication details: New Delhi Sage Publications 2012Description: 241p viISBN:
  • 9788132107347
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 335.020000 BAG
Contents:
Table of contents Introduction - Barnita Bagchi ; PART ONE: UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA: DEBATES AND RESONANCES ; Utopia: Future and/or Alterity? - Miguel Abensour; Echo of an Impossible Return: An Essay Concerning Fredric Jameson's Utopian Thought and Gathering and Hunting Social Relations - Peter Kulchyski; Radicalism in Early Modern England: Innovation or Reformation? - Rachel Foxley; Dystopia, Utopia, and Akhtaruzzaman Elias's Novel Khowabnam - Subhoranjan Dasgupta; Palestine: Land of Utopias - Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun; PART TWO: ENGENDERING UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA ; 'One Darling though Terrific Theme': Anna Wheeler and the Rights of Women - Theresa Moriarty; A Parliament of Women: Dystopia in Nineteenth-century Bengali Imagination - Samita Sen; 'Empire Builder': A Utopian Alternative to Citizenship for Early 20th Century British 'Ladies' - Martine Spensky; Ladylands and Sacrificial Holes: Utopias and Dystopias in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's Writings - Barnita Bagchi; Utopia in the Subjunctive Mood: Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather - Modhumita Roy; PART THREE: CONCLUSION ; Globalization, Development and Resistance of Utopian Dreams to the Praxis of Dystopian Utopia - Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp; Index
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Table of contents
Introduction - Barnita Bagchi ;
PART ONE: UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA: DEBATES AND RESONANCES ;
Utopia: Future and/or Alterity? - Miguel Abensour;
Echo of an Impossible Return: An Essay Concerning Fredric Jameson's Utopian Thought and Gathering and Hunting Social Relations - Peter Kulchyski;
Radicalism in Early Modern England: Innovation or Reformation? - Rachel Foxley;
Dystopia, Utopia, and Akhtaruzzaman Elias's Novel Khowabnam - Subhoranjan Dasgupta;
Palestine: Land of Utopias - Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun;
PART TWO: ENGENDERING UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA ;
'One Darling though Terrific Theme': Anna Wheeler and the Rights of Women - Theresa Moriarty;
A Parliament of Women: Dystopia in Nineteenth-century Bengali Imagination - Samita Sen;
'Empire Builder': A Utopian Alternative to Citizenship for Early 20th Century British 'Ladies' - Martine Spensky;
Ladylands and Sacrificial Holes: Utopias and Dystopias in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's Writings - Barnita Bagchi;
Utopia in the Subjunctive Mood: Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather - Modhumita Roy;
PART THREE: CONCLUSION ;
Globalization, Development and Resistance of Utopian Dreams to the Praxis of Dystopian Utopia - Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp;
Index