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Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society

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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Race and Utopian Desire
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    Chapter 2 Frederick Douglass’s Utopia: Searching for the Space of Black Freedom
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    Chapter 3 The Serial Novel, Nation, and Utopia: An Intratextual Re-reading of Pauline Hopkins’ Of One Blood; Or, the Hidden Self
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    Chapter 4 Black Power Utopia: African-American Utopianism and Revolutionary Prophesy in Black Power-Era Science Fiction
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    Chapter 5 “Strange Times to Be a Jew”: Themes of Whiteness, Identity, and Sanctuary in the Imagined Jewish Utopias of Grand Island and Sitka
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    Chapter 6 Utopian Thought and the Meeker Massacre of 1879
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    Chapter 7 Utopianism, Relativism, Cultural Imperialism: Mike Resnick’s Kirinyaga
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    Chapter 8 The White Power Utopia and the Reproduction of Victimized Whiteness
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    Chapter 9 “We Bleed in Mestizaje”: Corporeal Utopias and Mestiza Futurities in Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s Light in the Dark/Luz en Lo Oscuro
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    Chapter 10 “Something Like a Whole”: The Utopian Promise of Queer Retrosexuality
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    Chapter 11 How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional America: Charles Yu’s Immigrant Utopianism
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    Chapter 12 Against “a Place Without History”: Contemporary Racism and Utopian Dynamism in Mat Johnson’s Pym
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    Chapter 13 Re-Read and Recover: Afrofuturism as a Reading Practice in George S. Schuyler’s Black No More and Octavia E. Butler’s “The Book of Martha”
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    Chapter 14 Re-programming the Present: The Dynamism of Black Futurity in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber
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    Chapter 15 Dreaming of Afrofuturism, Epic Fantasy, and Utopia in N. K. Jemisin’s Dreamblood Duology
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Title
Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society
Published by
Springer International Publishing, November 2019
DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-19470-3
ISBNs
978-3-03-019469-7, 978-3-03-019470-3
Editors

Ventura, Patricia, Chan, Edward K.

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Unknown 5 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 1 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 20%
Student > Postgraduate 1 20%
Student > Master 1 20%
Unknown 1 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 2 40%
Social Sciences 2 40%
Unknown 1 20%