{"product_id":"trans-forming-utopia-volume-ii-the-small-thin-story-9783039113484","title":"Trans\/Forming Utopia - Volume II: The ‘Small Thin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs the utopian project dead? Is it possible to imagine a utopian society or a utopian world in the aftermath of the collapse of ideologies? This book contains eighteen essays which are the result of the 7th International Conference of Utopian Studies held in Spain in 2006, either debating the subject, or suggesting alternative readings to some of the theoretical ideas raised within utopian studies.\u003cbr\u003e This volume focuses on the importance of narratives in utopian literature. They define the world we live in and the world we wish to live in. Through narratives of confession, and indeed through silence itself, the unconscious emerges and desire is articulated. The articles in this volume question and challenge the power of the word, the stability of meaning, and the relationship between thought and action in the construction of utopia and dystopia. They also point to the various literary frameworks of utopian and dystopian narratives, thus connecting stories from the past, present and future of both real and imaginary and communities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Elizabeth Russell: Introduction – Maggie Gee: Utopia and the Living Body: Drought, Flood, Terror and Engineering in the Garden of Earthly Delights – Dolors Collellmir: The Ecological Paradigm in Jeannette Armstrong’s Novel \u003ci\u003eWhispering in Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e – Benjamin Smith: \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Garden\u003c\/i\u003e as Ecoregion: A Green Approach to a Children’s Novel – Maria Odette Canivell: Waslala: Beyond U-topia – Jennifer E. Michaels: Confronting German Terrorism: F.C. Delius’s Trilogy \u003ci\u003eDeutscher Herbst\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eGerman Autumn\u003c\/i\u003e) – Celia Wallhead: Two Takes on Terrorism in Kashmir: Salman Rushdie’s \u003ci\u003eShalimar the Clown\u003c\/i\u003e and Justine Hardy’s \u003ci\u003eThe Wonder House\u003c\/i\u003e – Renata Koba: The Other Side of History: Alternate World(s) of \u003ci\u003eThe Man in the High Castle\u003c\/i\u003e by Philip K. Dick – Alireza Omid Bakhsh: The Roots of Dystopia in Iran – Ana Raquel Fernandes: \u003ci\u003eLondon Fields\u003c\/i\u003e: Martin Amis’s Postmodern Dystopia – Ana Cláudia Romano Ribeiro: The Meaning of Hermaphroditism in Gabriel de Foigny’s Utopia \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Land Known\u003c\/i\u003e – Teresa Requena: The Brook Farm Heterotopia: Utopian Socialism and Gender in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s \u003ci\u003eThe Blithedale Romance\u003c\/i\u003e – Mercè Cuenca: ‘My Heroine Would Be Myself’: The Promise of a Queer Utopia in Carson McCullers’s \u003ci\u003eThe Member of the Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e and Sylvia Plath’s \u003ci\u003eThe Bell Jar\u003c\/i\u003e – Beatriz Domínguez García: The Utopian Future of Humankind in Three Novels by Sheri S. Tepper: The Power of the Feminine – María Dolores Gimeno Puyol: \u003ci\u003eViaje al País de los Ayparchontes\u003c\/i\u003e: the Limits of a Spanish Utopia in the Eighteenth Century – José Eduardo Reis: The Aporias of a Portuguese Literary Utopia: \u003ci\u003eIrmânia\u003c\/i\u003e by  ngelo Jorge – Hande Tekdemir: Utopic Reflections in the Capital of the ‘Other Empire’: Contemporary British Detective and Travel Fiction in Post-Ottoman Istanbul – Pere Gifra Adroher: Travel Writing on Andorra: Utopia in the Pyrenees – Pere Gallardo: The Road to Perdition is Paved in Technicolour.","brand":"Verlag Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043733438807,"sku":"9783039113484","price":49.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783039113484.jpg?v=1750959275","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/trans-forming-utopia-volume-ii-the-small-thin-story-9783039113484","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}