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The Racial Horizon of Utopia: Unthinking the Future of Race in Late Twentieth-Century American Utopian Novels

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By (author): Edward K. Chan

Race and utopia have been fundamental features of US American culture since the origins of the country. However, racial ideology has often contradicted the ideals of social and political equality in the United States. This book surveys reimaginings of race in major late twentieth-century US American utopian novels from the 1970s to the 1990s. Dorothy Bryant, Marge Piercy, Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler and Kim Stanley Robinson all present radical new configurations of race in a more ideal society, yet continually encounter an ideological blockage as the horizon beyond which we cannot rethink race. Nevertheless, these novels create productive strains of thinking to grapple with the question of race in US American culture. Drawing on feminist theory and critiques of democracy, the author argues that our utopian dreams cannot be furthered unless we come to terms with the phenomenology of race and the impasse of the individual in liberal humanist democracy. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 340g
  • Dimensions: 150 x 225mm
  • Publication Date: 18 Nov 2015
  • Publisher: Peter Lang AG Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
  • Publication City/Country: Switzerland
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9783034319164

About Edward K. Chan

Edward K. Chan is Associate Professor of American Studies at Aichi University in Nagoya Japan. His research and teaching interests include twentieth-century US American literary film and popular culture with a special emphasis on race and transnational perspectives on US American culture.

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