Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society
Bringing together a variety of scholarly voices, this book argues for the necessity of understanding the important role literature plays in crystallizing the ideologies of the oppressed, while exploring the necessarily racialized character of utopian thou
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Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society
Patricia Ventura · Edward K. Chan Editors
Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society
Editors Patricia Ventura Department of English Spelman College Atlanta, GA, USA
Edward K. Chan Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences Waseda University Tokyo, Japan
ISBN 978-3-030-19469-7 ISBN 978-3-030-19470-3 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19470-3 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: “If Only”. Digital collage by Stacey Robinson Cover design by Fatima Jamadar This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Foreword
Utopia Beyond the Pale Several years ago, I was smitten with a desire for statistical information about the Society for Utopian Studies (SUS) conferences. Without statistical training and unaware of the difficulty of the undertaking, I plunged into a review of all the conference programs since the first one in 1976. My system of categorizing the topics of the papers was rather vague and arbitrary, but I hoped that, at the very least, the statistics would reveal general patterns and themes that scholars in the field deemed significant. One of my categories was “Underrepresented” authors and intentional community members, papers that included sustained discussions of African-American, Native American, Asian American, and Latinx issues and authors. Judging from my experience attending SUS conferences (I have missed only one), I didn’t expect the percentage of papers to be high in this category. But I was surprised at how low the percentage was. Of the 3842 papers delivered, only 203, a bit over 5%, focused on these issues and authors.1 In s
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