The Racial Horizon of Utopia - Unthinking the Future of Race in Late Twentieth-Century American Utopian Novels (Paperback, New edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Ralahine Utopian Studies, 17
Release date:	November 2015
First published:	2016
Authors:	Edward K Chan
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	226
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-431916-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Promotions
LSN:	3-03-431916-9
Barcode:	9783034319164

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