Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society

ISBN-13: 9783030194727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 311 str.

Patricia Ventura; Edward K. Chan

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Part I. Introductories

1. Preface; Kenneth M. Roemer

2. Introduction; Patricia Ventura

3. Aethiopian Devils Are White: Constructions of Race in Early Modern Utopian Texts; Jane Campbell

Part II. African American Literatures of Utopia from the Past to the Afrofuture

4. The Illusory Promises of Freedom: Frederick Douglass and the Utopia of Liberation; David Lemke

5. Intratextual Utopianism in Pauline Hopkins' Of One Blood; Or, the Hidden Self and the Colored American Magazine; Amber Foster

6. Inevitable Hell? Eutopia and Race in George S. Schuyler’s Black No More; Tarshia Stanley

7. Black Power Utopia: Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light, and the Revolutionary Afrofuturism of 1962-1974; Mark Tabone

8. Utopianism, Anti-utopianism, and Cultural Appropriation: Mike Resnick’s Kirinyaga; Jeffrey Allen Tucker

9. Re-Programming the Present: The Dynamism of Black Futurity in Nalo Hopkinson Novels”; Cienna Davis

10. Race and Utopia in Mat Johnson’s Pym; Julie Fiorelli

11. Someone Else’s Hell: Utopia in N.K. Jemisin’s Dreamblood Duology; Susana Morris

12. Afrotopia and Afrofuturism: Seeking a Happy Place in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Nisi Shawl’s Everfair; Isiah Lavender III

Part 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. Nuckolls

14. Utopian Citizenship and Contemporary Arab-American Literature; Joseph Donica

15. The White Nationalist Utopia and the Reproduction of Victimized Whiteness; Edward K. Chan

16. "Strange Times to be a Jew"—Themes of Whiteness, Identity, and Sanctuary in the Imagined Jewish Utopias of Grand Island and Sitka; Justin Nordstrom

17. Looking Inward: Charles Yu and the Impossibility of Private Utopias; Betsy Huang

18. The Tale of the Tattoo: Latino/Americans, Race, and Utopia in Ink; Tace Hedrick and Karina Vado

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Patricia Ventura is Associate Professor of English at Spelman College, USA.

Edward K. Chan is Associate Professor in the School of Culture, Media, and Society at Waseda University, Japan.