Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society by Patricia VenturaEnglish | PDF,EPUB | 2019 | 327 Pages | ISBN : 3030194698 | 6.49 MB
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 thought in American culture and society. Utopia in everyday usage designates an idealized fantasy place, but within the interdisciplinary field of utopian studies, the term often describes the worldviews of non-dominant groups when they challenge the ruling order.