The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945
Sherryl Vint
May 2024 · Cambridge University Press
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Providing a comprehensive overview of American thought in the period following World War II, after which the US became a global military and economic leader, this book explores the origins of American utopianism and provides a trenchant critique from the point of view of those left out of the hegemonic ideal. Centring the voices of those oppressed by or omitted from the consumerist American Dream, this book celebrates alternative ways of thinking about how to create a better world through daily practices of generosity, justice, and care. The chapters collected here emphasize utopianism as a practice of social transformation, not as a literary genre depicting a putatively perfect society, and urgently make the case for why we need utopian thought today. With chapters on climate change, economic justice, technology, and more, alongside chapters exploring utopian traditions outside Western frameworks, this book opens a new discussion in utopian thought and theory.
About the author
Sherryl Vint is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, and of English, at the University of California, Riverside. She is a recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association's Lifetime Achievement and Innovative Research awards. She has published widely on speculative fiction and culture, including most recently Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction (2021).
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