Performing Utopias In The Contemporary Americas
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Author |
: Kim Beauchesne |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 325 |
Release |
: 2017-05-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137568731 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137568739 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas by : Kim Beauchesne
This book offers an innovative examination of the utopian impulse through performance as a proposition of practical engagement in the contemporary Americas. The volume compiles unique multidisciplinary and exploratory texts, applying diverse critical and artistic approaches. Its contributors reconceptualize utopia as a creative and theoretical method based on a commitment to sociopolitical transformation. Chapters are organized around notions of mapping utopias, indigenizing practices, political manifestations, and the construction of social identities.
Author |
: Jyotsna Sreenivasan |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 451 |
Release |
: 2008-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781598840537 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1598840533 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Utopias in American History by : Jyotsna Sreenivasan
An insightful look at the long tradition of communal societies in the United States from colonial times to the present, examining their ideological foundations, daily life, and relationships to mainstream American society. With this volume, a fascinating, yet often overlooked, part of the American story is brought to the forefront. In Utopias in American History, independent scholar Jyotsna Sreenivasan makes the case that from the founding of the American colonies to the hippie communes of the 1960s to the cohousing movement, which started in the 1990s, the United States has the most sustained tradition of utopianism of any modern country. Accessible yet authoritative and highly informative, Utopias in American History offers dozens of alphabetically organized entries covering all aspects of communal societies from colonial times to the present. Featured are descriptions of over 40 major utopian communities, both religious and secular. Entries are organized in terms of their histories, belief systems, leadership, economics, daily life, and the reactions they drew from mainstream society.
Author |
: Sean Austin Grattan |
Publisher |
: University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages |
: 202 |
Release |
: 2017-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781609385224 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1609385225 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hope Isn't Stupid by : Sean Austin Grattan
Hope Isn’t Stupid is the first study to interrogate the neglected connections between affect and the practice of utopia in contemporary American literature. Although these concepts are rarely theorized together, it is difficult to fully articulate utopia without understanding how affects circulate within utopian texts. Moving away from science fiction—the genre in which utopian visions are often located—author Sean Grattan resuscitates the importance of utopianism in recent American literary history. Doing so enables him to assert the pivotal role contemporary American literature has to play in allowing us to envision alternatives to global neoliberal capitalism. Novelists William S. Burroughs, Dennis Cooper, John Darnielle, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, and Colson Whitehead are deeply invested in the creation of utopian possibilities. A return to reading the utopian wager in literature from the postmodern to the contemporary period reinvigorates critical forms that imagine reading as an act of communication, friendship, solace, and succor. These forms also model richer modes of belonging than the diluted and impoverished ones on display in the neoliberal present. Simultaneously, by linking utopian studies and affect studies, Grattan’s work resists the tendency for affect studies to codify around the negative, instead reorienting the field around the messy, rich, vibrant, and ambivalent affective possibilities of the world. Hope Isn’t Stupid insists on the centrality of utopia not only in American literature, but in American life as well.
Author |
: Peter Marks |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 721 |
Release |
: 2022-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030886547 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030886549 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures by : Peter Marks
The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures celebrates a literary genre already over 500 years old. Specially commissioned essays from established and emerging international scholars reflect the vibrancy of utopian vision, and its resiliency as idea, genre, and critical mode. Covering politics, environment, geography, body and mind, and social organization, the volume surveys current research and maps new areas of study. The chapters include investigations of anarchism, biopolitics, and postcolonialism and study film, art, and literature. Each essay considers central questions and key primary works, evaluates the most recent research, and outlines contemporary debates. Literatures of Africa, Australia, China, Latin America, and the Middle East are discussed in this global, cross-disciplinary, and comprehensive volume.
Author |
: Teresa Botelho |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 2014-07-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781443863711 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1443863718 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Performing Identities and Utopias of Belonging by : Teresa Botelho
Performing Identities and Utopias of Belonging consists of sixteen essays, reflecting the current conflicted debate on the ontology, constructiveness and affect of categories of ascribed social identity such as gender, ethnicity, race and nation, in the context of British, Irish and North American cultural landscapes. They address the many ways in which these communities of belonging are imagined, iterated, performed, questioned, and deconstructed in literature, cinema and visual culture; they also support or counter claims about the enhanced value of social identity in the expression of the self in the light of the present debates that surround the contested post-identity turn in cultural studies. Significantly, they also address the role of social identity in the field of utopian and dystopian thought, focusing on the projection of imagined futures where alternative means of conceiving ascribed identity are conceptualized. The contributions are shaped by a plurality of approaches and theoretical discourses, and come from both established and emerging scholars and researchers from Europe and beyond. The collection is structured in three sections – the politics of (un)belonging, deconstructing utopian and cultural paradigms, and performing identities in the visual arts – which organize the multidisciplinary discussions around specific nuclei of interrogations.
Author |
: Elena Shtromberg |
Publisher |
: Getty Publications |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2023-02-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781606067918 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1606067915 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Encounters in Video Art in Latin America by : Elena Shtromberg
With insightful essays and interviews, this volume examines how artists have experimented with the medium of video across different regions of Latin America since the 1960s. The emergence of video art in Latin America is marked by multiple points of development, across more than a dozen artistic centers, over a period of more than twenty-five years. When first introduced during the 1960s, video was seen as empowering: the portability of early equipment and the possibility of instant playback allowed artists to challenge and at times subvert the mainstream media. Video art in Latin America was—and still is—closely related to the desire for social change. Themes related to gender, ethnic, and racial identity as well as the consequences of social inequality and ecological disasters have been fundamental to many artists’ practices. This compendium explores the history and current state of artistic experimentation with video throughout Latin America. Departing from the relatively small body of existing scholarship in English, much of which focuses on individual countries, this volume approaches the topic thematically, positioning video artworks from different periods and regions throughout Latin America in dialogue with each other. Organized in four broad sections—Encounters, Networks and Archives, Memory and Crisis, and Indigenous Perspectives—the book’s essays and interviews encourage readers to examine the medium of video across varied chronologies and geographies.
Author |
: Jürgen Bogle |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 31 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1245512791 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Performing Utopia by : Jürgen Bogle
Author |
: Jorge León Casero |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 355 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783031534911 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3031534913 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rethinking Democracy for Post-Utopian Worlds by : Jorge León Casero
Author |
: J. Friesen |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 2016-02-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781403982230 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1403982236 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Palgrave Companion to North American Utopias by : J. Friesen
The Palgrave Companion to North American Utopias is a fascinating virtual catalogue of utopian societies and communes from past to present. The authors assert that the formation of a utopian society is both possible and feasible and give examples of how to create one of our own.
Author |
: Judie Newman |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 195 |
Release |
: 2014-07-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136774805 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136774807 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction by : Judie Newman
This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globalization through authors such as Susan Choi, André Dubus, Dalia Sofer, and John Updike. While recent critical thinkers have reengaged with Utopia, the possibility of terror — whether state or non-state, external or homegrown — shadows Utopian imaginings. Terror and Utopia are linked in fiction through the exploration of the commodification of affect, a phenomenon of a globalized world in which feelings are managed, homogenized across cultures, exaggerated, or expunged according to a dominant model. Narrative approaches to the terrorist offer a means to investigate the ways in which fiction can resist commodification of affect, and maintain a reasoned but imaginative vision of possibilities for human community. Newman explores topics such as the first American bestseller with a Muslim protagonist, the links between writer and terrorist, the work of Iranian-Jewish Americans, and the relation of race and religion to Utopian thought.