The politics of the (im)possible/
The politics of the (im)possible/ utopia and dystopia reconsidered
Bagchi,Barnita [ed.]
- Los Angeles: SAGE, 2012.
- vi, 241 p
Acknowledgements --
Introduction / Barnita Bagchi --
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 Khowabnama / Subhoranjan Dasgupta --
Palestine : land of utopias / Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun --
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-twentieth 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 --
Coda : resistance --
Globalization, development, and resistance of utopian dreams to the praxis of dystopian utopia / Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp --
About the editor and contributors --
Index.
9788132107347 (hard back)
320 / BAG/P
Acknowledgements --
Introduction / Barnita Bagchi --
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 Khowabnama / Subhoranjan Dasgupta --
Palestine : land of utopias / Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun --
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-twentieth 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 --
Coda : resistance --
Globalization, development, and resistance of utopian dreams to the praxis of dystopian utopia / Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp --
About the editor and contributors --
Index.
9788132107347 (hard back)
320 / BAG/P