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About this book
Nowhere Lands: Exploring Utopian & Dystopian Voices features striking poetry, thought-provoking essays, and gripping narratives that explore the human condition and visions of what may be. This collection explores a continuum of societal extremes ranging from a writer’s belief in a more perfect democracy to the cruel and brutal actions of an authoritarian leader. Each essay, poem, speech, and story forms a map to the nowhere lands; places that begin in the author’s imagination but become real as readers discover worlds simultaneously foreign and familiar.
Nowhere Lands includes diverse pieces from authors of different centuries, cultures, and worldviews. From Alabama Governor George Wallace's 1963 inaugural address, which declared “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,” to Ta-Nehisi Coates's 2019 Congressional testimony, where he described the American sense of being "bound to a collective enterprise that extends beyond our individual and personal reach," this book presents societies pushed to extremes. The works in this anthology use topics such as race, gender, and economics to evaluate societal organization through the fantastical and the mundane. In this moment of seismic cultural and political change, Nowhere Lands provides a meaningful opportunity to reflect on each author's assertions about our future. In turn, readers are encouraged, through guided questions and contextual footnotes, to consider how the worlds described in the anthology mirror the world outside their windows.
This anthology includes:
· A comprehensive table of contents with works from across the globe
· Contextual introductions to each work
· Key vocabulary terms for student readers
· An expansive “For further reading” section for genre devotees
· Editorial footnotes explaining outdated language, context, or obscure references
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: A Shifting Landscape
- The Language of Nowhere Lands
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
- Transcendental Wild Oats
- My Industrial Work
- From Survive and Resist: The Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics
- From Strongmen
- Dystopian Dusk
- Testimony Before the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice
- H. Res. 194 Apologizing for the Enslavement and Racial Segregation of African-Americans
- The Comet
- From The Waste Land
- To Avoid a Dystopian Climate Future, We Must First Envision the World We Want
- From Herland
- The Hill We Climb
- Seven Generations
- From Decolonizing the Critical Dystopia
- From Five Generations Hence
- Sultana’s Dream
- Tired
- Small Utopias
- Day of the Comet
- Dystopia is not going to be easy on me
- What Would a Feminist Utopia Look Like for Parents of Color?
- From The Gates of Paradise
- From Utopia
- From News from Nowhere
- Montaukett Tribe to the State of New York
- Song of the Balsa Wood Bird
- From The Last Man
- Dystopia Isn’t Sci-Fi—for Me
- From Extracts from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven
- Inaugural Address
- From We
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Further Exploration
- Notes
- Credits