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Trans/forming utopia. Vol. 2, The 'small thin story' / Elizabeth Russell, (ed.).

Author
Russell, Elizabeth, 1948-
Additional Titles
Transforming utopia and Small thin story
Published
Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
235 pages : bill. ; 23 cm
Additional Creators
Society for Utopian Studies and Society for Utopian Studies. Conference (7th : 2006 : Tarragona, Spain)

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Contents
Introduction / Elizabeth Russell -- Utopia and the living body : drought, flood, terror and engineering in the Garden of Earthly Delights / Maggie Gee -- The ecologists paradigm in Jeannette Armstrong's novel Whispering in shadows / Dolors Collellmir -- The secret garden as ecoregion : a green approach to a children's novel / Benjamin Smith -- Waslala : beyond u-topia / Maria Odette Canivell -- Confronting German terrorism : F.C. Delius's trilogy Deutscher Herbst (German autumn) / Jennifer E. Michaels -- Two takes on terrorism in Kashmir : Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the clown and Justine Hardy's The wonder house / Celia Wallhead -- The other side of history : alternate world(s) of The man in the high castle by Philip K. Dick / Renata Koba -- The roots of dystopia in Iran / Alireza Omid Bakhsh -- London fields : Martin Amis's postmodern dystopia -- Ana Raquel Fernandes -- The meaning of hermaphroditism in Gabriel de Foigny's utopia The southern land known / Ana Cláudia Romano Ribeiro -- The Brook Farm heterotopia : utopian socialism and gender in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale romance / Teresa Requena -- 'My heroine would be myself' : the promise of a queer utopia in Carson McCuller's The member of the wedding and Sylvia Plath's The bell jar / Mercè Cuenca -- The utopian future of humankind in three novels by Sheri S. Tepper : the power of the feminine / Beatriz Domínguez García -- Viaje al pais de los ayparchontes : the limits of a Spanish utopia in the eighteenth century / María Dolores Gimeno Puyol -- The aporias of a Portuguese literary utopia : Irmânia by Ângelo Jorge / José Eduardo Reis -- Utopic reflections in the capital of the 'other empire' : contemporary British detectives and travel fiction in post-Ottoman Istanbul / Hande Tekdemir -- Travel writing on Andorra : utopia in the Pyrenees / Pere Gifra Adroher -- The road to perdition is paved in technicolour / Pere Gallardo -- Notes on contributors -- Index.
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ISBN
9783039113484 (v. 2 : pbk.)
3039113488 (v. 2 : pbk.)
Related Titles
Looking forward to the end
Collection
Arthur O. Lewis Utopia Collection.
Note
"This is the second of two volumes of essays on utopian writing. The essays are rewritings of papers presented at the 7th International Conference of the Society for Utopian Studies, held in Tarragona in 2006 ..."--P. [9].
Subtitle of vol. 1: Looking forward to the end.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Acquisition
Rare Books copy: Gift of Lyman Tower Sargent; 2011.
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