Editor: Ralph Pordzik<\/p>\n
Publication Info: Rodopi: Amsterdam\/New York, NY, 2009.<\/p>\n
“This book testifies to the growing interest in the many spaces of utopia<\/em>. It intends to \u2018map out\u2019 on utopian and science-fiction discourses some of the new and revisionist models of spatial analysis applied in Literary and Cultural Studies in recent years. The aim of the volume is to side-step the established generic binary of utopia and dystopia or science fiction and thus to open the analysis of utopian literature to new lines of inquiry. The essays collected here propose to think of utopias not so much as fictional texts about future change and transformation but as vital elements in a cultural process through which social, spatial and subjective identities are formed. Utopias can thus be read as textual systems implying a distinct spatial and temporal dimension; as \u2018spatial practices\u2019 that tend to naturalize a cultural and social construction \u2013 that of the \u2018good life\u2019, the radically improved welfare state, the Christian paradise, the counter-society, etc. \u2013 and make that representation operational by interpellating their readers in some determinate relation to their givenness as sites of political and individual improvement. ISBN: 978-90-420-2602-5<\/p>\n Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Editor: Ralph Pordzik Publication Info: Rodopi: Amsterdam\/New York, NY, 2009. “This book testifies to the growing interest in the many spaces of utopia. It intends to \u2018map out\u2019 on utopian and science-fiction discourses some of the new and revisionist models … Continue reading
\nThis volume is of interest for all scholars and students of literature who wish to explore the ways in which utopias of the past and recent present have circulated as media of cultural exchange and homogenization, as sites of cultural and linguistic appropriation and as foci for the spatial formation of national and regional identities in the English-speaking world.”<\/p>\n