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Book SynopsisChapter 00. Introduction - Aparajita Nanda and Lucia-Mihaela Grosu-Radulescu.- Part I. Performing an Ustopian Future.- Chapter 1. Back to the Future or Forward to the Past? Futurism, Transhumanism, and Transmedia in Two Ustopian Operas by Gian Carlo Menotti and Tod Machover - Alina Bottez.- Chapter 2. Beyond Self-Identity and Toward Alter Ego. Transcendence in Contemporary Japanese Theater - Iryna Kastylianchanka.- Chapter 3. Trans Identity and Neurodiversity in Dramatic Literature: Diego Casado Rubio’s millones de segundos - Lynn Deboeck.- Part II. Crafting Ustopian Ecosystems.- Chapter 4. Inventing the Enemy: Popular Science Fiction on Screen as Political Parables -Siddhartha Biswas.- Chapter 5. The end of the world is always a local event’: Dystopian Futures and Utopian Resistance in Contemporary Irish Fiction and Film - Simon Workman.- Chapter 6. Fast-forward into the Future: Socioeconomic Change and Spatial Reconfigurations in Years and Years (Russell T. Davies, 2019) - Pablo Gómez-Muñoz.- Chapter 7. Mis-Leading Meritocracies. Segregation and Biopolitics in Brazilian Ustopias - Olivia E. Holloway.- Chapter 8. Black Evermore. Racial Subjectivity, World-Building at Play, and Charting a Path from the Harlem Renaissance to Videogames through George Schuyler’s Black No More - Jalin Niamke Jackson.- Chapter 9. The Art of Being Governed? On Failings of the Utopic Imagination - Nefeli Forni Zervoudaki.- Chapter 10. Inhabiting Ustopia: Indian Science Fiction Films, PK and Anukul.- Chapter 11.- Beyond Stereotypes: Ms. Marvel and the Representation of Muslim Superheroine in Ustopian Narratives - Shaista Irshad.- Chapter 12. Choice, Compatibility and Consent in “Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya” - Mukta Sharangpani.- Part III. The Future is now: Contemporary Ustopians.- Chapter 13. Technologies of Survivance. The Indigenous Futurist Work of Cannupa Hanska Luger and Skawennati - Preston Taylor Stone.- Chapter 14. Between Ustopia and the Affective Heterotopia: Vtubing and its Fandom - Alice Teodorescu.- Chapter 15. Ustopians of Today: From Fantasy to Reality, Female Cosplay in Romania - Lucia-Mihaela Grosu-Radulescu.
