Chicanx Utopias

Author : Luis Alvarez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477324509

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Chicanx Utopias by Luis Alvarez Pdf

2023 Honorable Mention Best History Book, International Latino Book Awards Broad and encompassing examination of Chicanx popular culture since World War II and the utopian visions it articulated Amid the rise of neoliberalism, globalization, and movements for civil rights and global justice in the post–World War II era, Chicanxs in film, music, television, and art weaponized culture to combat often oppressive economic and political conditions. They envisioned utopias that, even if never fully realized, reimagined the world and linked seemingly disparate people and places. In the latter half of the twentieth century, Chicanx popular culture forged a politics of the possible and gave rise to utopian dreams that sprang from everyday experiences. In Chicanx Utopias, Luis Alvarez offers a broad study of these utopian visions from the 1950s to the 2000s. Probing the film Salt of the Earth, brown-eyed soul music, sitcoms, poster art, and borderlands reggae music, he examines how Chicanx pop culture, capable of both liberation and exploitation, fostered interracial and transnational identities, engaged social movements, and produced varied utopian visions with divergent possibilities and limits. Grounded in the theoretical frameworks of Walter Benjamin, Stuart Hall, and the Zapatista movement, this book reveals how Chicanxs articulated pop cultural utopias to make sense of, challenge, and improve the worlds they inhabited.

Author : Jacqueline M. Hidalgo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137592149

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Revelation in Aztlán by Jacqueline M. Hidalgo Pdf

Bridging the fields of Religion and Latina/o Studies, this book fills a gap by examining the “spiritual” rhetoric and practices of the Chicano movement. Bringing new theoretical life to biblical studies and Chicana/o writings from the 1960s, such as El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán and El Plan de Santa Barbara, Jacqueline M. Hidalgo boldly makes the case that peoples, for whom historical memories of displacement loom large, engage scriptures in order to make and contest homes. Movement literature drew upon and defied the scriptural legacies of Revelation, a Christian scriptural text that also carries a displaced homing dream. Through the slipperiness of utopian imaginations, these texts become places of belonging for those whose belonging has otherwise been questioned. Hidalgo’s elegant comparative study articulates as never before how Aztlán and the new Jerusalem’s imaginative power rest in their ambiguities, their ambivalence, and the significance that people ascribe to them.

Author : Frances Bartkowski
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803260911

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Feminist Utopias by Frances Bartkowski Pdf

The utopias envisioned by Edward Bellamy and other novelists late in the nineteenth century were generally blueprints of government. As satellites of men, women were expected to share in the general improvement of society. The resurgence of the feminist movement since the late 1960s has produced a very different kind of utopian literature. Frances Bartkowski explores a body of work that is striking and vital because it reflects the hopes, fears, and desires of women who have glimpsed the possibilities of a bright new world freed from stifling patriarchal structures. Feminist Utopias is a comparative study of the utopian fiction of nine women writers in the United States, France, and Canada. Except for Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915), the prototype for feminist literary utopias, all of the works were published between 1969 and 1986. Bartkowski discusses Monique Wittig's Les Guérillères, Joanna Russ's The Female Man, Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time, Suzy McKee Charnas's Motherlines, Christine Rochefort's Archaos, ou le jardin étincelant, E. M. Broner's A Weave of Women, Louky Bersianik's The Eugelionne, and two dystopian novels, Charnas's Walk to the End of the World and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid’s Tale.

Author : Verena Adamik
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030602796

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In Search of the Utopian States of America by Verena Adamik Pdf

This book endeavours to understand the seemingly direct link between utopianism and the USA, discussing novels that have never been brought together in this combination before, even though they all revolve around intentional communities: Imlay’s The Emigrants (1793), Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance (1852), Howland’s Papas Own Girl (1874), Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio (1899), and Du Bois’s The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911). They relate nation and utopia not by describing perfect societies, but by writing about attempts to immediately live radically different lives. Signposting the respective communal history, the readings provide a literary perspective to communal studies, and add to a deeply necessary historicization for strictly literary approaches to US utopianism, and for studies that focus on Pilgrims/Puritans/Founding Fathers as utopian practitioners. This book therefore highlights how the authors evaluated the USA’s utopian potential and traces the nineteenth-century development of the utopian imagination from various perspectives.

Author : Davina Cooper
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822377153

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Everyday Utopias by Davina Cooper Pdf

Everyday utopias enact conventional activities in unusual ways. Instead of dreaming about a better world, participants seek to create it. As such, their activities provide vibrant and stimulating contexts for considering the terms of social life, of how we live together and are governed. Weaving conceptual theorizing together with social analysis, Davina Cooper examines utopian projects as seemingly diverse as a feminist bathhouse, state equality initiatives, community trading networks, and a democratic school where students and staff collaborate in governing. She draws from firsthand observations and interviews with participants to argue that utopian projects have the potential to revitalize progressive politics through the ways their innovative practices incite us to rethink mainstream concepts including property, markets, care, touch, and equality. This is no straightforward story of success, however, but instead a tale of the challenges concepts face as they move between being imagined, actualized, hoped for, and struggled over. As dreaming drives new practices and practices drive new dreams, everyday utopias reveal how hard work, feeling, ethical dilemmas, and sometimes, failure, bring concepts to life.

Author : Jean Pfaelzer
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1985-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822974420

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The Utopian Novel in America, 1886–1896 by Jean Pfaelzer Pdf

In the late 1800s, Americans flocked to cities, immigration, slums, and unemployment burgeoned, and America's role in foreign affairs grew. This period also spawned a number of fictional glimpses into the future. After the publication of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward in 1888, there was an outpouring of utopian fantasy, many of which promoted socialism, while others presented refined versions of capitalism. Jean Pfaelzer's study traces the impact of the utopian novel and the narrative structures of these sentimental romances. She discusses progressive, pastoral, feminist, and apocalyptic utopias, as well as the genre's parodic counterpart, the dystopia.

Author : Jayna Brown
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478021230

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Black Utopias by Jayna Brown Pdf

In Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of creative worldmaking. Brown explores the lives and work of Black women mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, and the work of speculative fiction writers Samuel Delany and Octavia Butler as they decenter and destabilize the human, radically refusing liberal humanist ideas of subjectivity and species. Brown demonstrates that engaging in utopian practices Black subjects imagine and manifest new genres of existence and forms of collectivity. For Brown, utopia consists of those moments in the here and now when those excluded from the category human jump into other onto-epistemological realms. Black people—untethered from the hope of rights, recognition, or redress—celebrate themselves as elements in a cosmic effluvium.

Author : Libby Falk Jones,Sarah McKim Webster Goodwin
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0870496360

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Feminism, Utopia, and Narrative by Libby Falk Jones,Sarah McKim Webster Goodwin Pdf

Author : Marissa K. López
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479807727

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Racial Immanence by Marissa K. López Pdf

Explores the how, why, and what of contemporary Chicanx culture, including punk rock, literary fiction, photography, mass graves, and digital and experimental installation art Racial Immanence attempts to unravel a Gordian knot at the center of the study of race and discourse: it seeks to loosen the constraints that the politics of racial representation put on interpretive methods and on our understanding of race itself. Marissa K. López argues that reading Chicanx literary and cultural texts primarily for the ways they represent Chicanxness only reinscribes the very racial logic that such texts ostensibly set out to undo. Racial Immanence proposes to read differently; instead of focusing on representation, it asks what Chicanx texts do, what they produce in the world, and specifically how they produce access to the ineffable but material experience of race. Intrigued by the attention to disease, disability, abjection, and sense experience that she sees increasing in Chicanx visual, literary, and performing arts in the late-twentieth century, López explores how and why artists use the body in contemporary Chicanx cultural production. Racial Immanence takes up works by writers like Dagoberto Gilb, Cecile Pineda, and Gil Cuadros, the photographers Ken Gonzales Day and Stefan Ruiz, and the band Piñata Protest to argue that the body offers a unique site for pushing back against identity politics. In so doing, the book challenges theoretical conversations around affect and the post-human and asks what it means to truly consider people of color as writersand artists. Moving beyond abjection, López models Chicanx cultural production as a way of fostering networks of connection that deepen our attachments to the material world.

Author : Alexandra Brodsky,Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781558619012

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The Feminist Utopia Project by Alexandra Brodsky,Rachel Kauder Nalebuff Pdf

This “incredible addition to the feminist canon” brings together the most inspiring, creative, and courageous voices concerning modern women’s issues (Jessica Valenti, editor of Yes Means Yes). In this groundbreaking collection, more than fifty cutting-edge feminist writers—including Melissa Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, Sheila Heti, and Mia McKenzie—invite us to imagine a world of freedom and equality in which: An abortion provider reinvents birth control . . . The economy values domestic work . . . A teenage rock band dreams up a new way to make music . . . The Constitution is re-written with women’s rights at the fore . . . The standard for good sex is raised with a woman’s pleasure in mind . . . The Feminist Utopia Project challenges the status quo that accepts inequality and violence as a given, “offering playful, earnest, challenging, and hopeful versions of our collective future in the form of creative nonfiction, fiction, visual art, poetry, and more” (Library Journal).

Author : Carol Farley Kessler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015034539752

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Daring to Dream by Carol Farley Kessler Pdf

This study of American utopian fiction by women before 1950 includes exerpts from seven novels. This second edition presents a feminist revision of Edward Bellamy's influential Looking Backwards and ends with a World War II interplanetary women-centred fantasy.

Author : Carol A. Kolmerten
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815605552

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Women in Utopia by Carol A. Kolmerten Pdf

Carol A. Kolmerten is professor of English at Hood College. She is the author of The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose.

Author : Tatiana Teslenko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135885168

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Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s by Tatiana Teslenko Pdf

This book presents an exploration of the reinvented utopia that provided second-wave feminists of the 1970s with a conceptual space to articulate the politics of change. Tatiana Teslenko argues that utopian fiction of this decade offered a means of validating the personal as well as the political, and of criticizing a patriarchal social order. Teslenko reveals feminists' attempt through fiction to envision a new political order.

Author : Marleen S. Barr,Nicholas D. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106006971854

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Women and Utopia by Marleen S. Barr,Nicholas D. Smith Pdf

Author : Ruby Rohrlich,Elaine Hoffman Baruch
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0805207627

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Women in Search of Utopia by Ruby Rohrlich,Elaine Hoffman Baruch Pdf

Depicts feminist utopias of the past, describes utopian experiments in the United States, Scotland, and Israel, and discusses science fiction and utopian fiction and poems