In eleven essays of scholarly inquiry encompassing a variety of disciplinary perspectives including literature, visual culture, and media studies, Microutopias and Everyday Hope illuminates the potential for alternative futures that resides in utopian thinking on smaller scales.
Reflecting on analyses of source material that ranges from entertainment media to concrete sites, contributors draw our attention to the important aesthetic details of everyday life that are increasingly drowned out in a landscape dominated by continuous polycrisis. Caught in late capitalism's relentless and dystopian march, they argue, any kind of future is necessarily predicated on utopian thinking in the present and must look beyond the spectacle of horror to draw on the hope that can be found in the smaller wins day to day.
Ultimately, this collection serves as an appeal to the crucial role the humanities can play in withstanding and moving past the contemporary societal fragmentation plaguing the globe.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Microutopias and Everyday Hope
- Chapter 2: Unrest and the Light of Utopia : Anarchism and Archaeology
- Chapter 3: “Don’t You Tempt Me with Perfection”: Music, Death, and Utopia
- Chapter 4: Transnational Figurations of (Micro)utopia in C. N. Adichie’s Americanah and K. Waclawiak’s How to Get into the Twin Palms
- Chapter 5: How to Imagine Micrutopias
- Chapter 6: Micro-ecotopic Power Lines in Fantasy Literature
- Chapter 7: Microutopian Ethics
- Chapter 8: Brilliant Stacks of Cans: The Microutopian Impulse in White Noise
- Chapter 9: A Working-Class Return to (Micro)Utopia?: After Presentism in Miranda July’s Kajillionaire
- Chapter 10: The Politics of Everyday Life: Orwell and the Dispossessed
- Chapter 11: Everyday Utopias—Compasses of Hope
- Chapter 12: The Possibility of an Island: The White Lotus as Utopian Heterotopia
- Index
- About the Editors and Contributors
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