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Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature
A Commons Poetics
Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature
A Commons Poetics
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Featuring readings of contemporary utopian poetry and fiction from authors such as Juliana Spahr, Mohsin Hamid, Bong Joon-ho, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lidia Yukavitch, and Cory Doctorow, this book investigates the commons - a form of organisation based on collectivity, communalism and sharing - as a type of transition between capitalist precarity and crisis and anti-capitalist futures. Each of the texts under examination was written in opposition to a particular crisis of the capitalist present - inequality, political representation, mobility, and climate change - and develops a particular mode of utopian 'commoning'.
Through its examination of these writers, crises and texts, this book reaffirms the use of utopianism as a tool for generating and representing alternative futures for a world in the midst of ongoing planetary crisis.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter One. Redefining Utopia: Utopian critical theory and utopian spatiality
Chapter Two. Escaping the Present: Precarity and surplus in a time of crisis
Chapter Three. Commons Beyond Capitalism: That Winter the Wolf Came
Chapter Four. Utopias Beyond Borders: Exit West
Chapter Five. Utopias Beyond Disaster: New York 2140
Chapter Six. Utopias Beyond Death: The Book of Joan and Walkaway
Epilogue
Bibliography
Product details
| Published | 15 Jun 2023 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 208 |
| ISBN | 9781350288577 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Series | New Horizons in Contemporary Writing |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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