Landscapes of Hope Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America

Name: Landscapes of Hope Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America
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ISBN: 9780195332766

ISBN-10: 0195332768

ISBN-13: 9780195332766

Edition: 2009

Authors: Dohra Ahmad

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Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America examines anti-colonial discourse during the understudied but critical period before World War Two, with a specific focus on writers and activists based in the United States. Dohra Ahmad adds to the fields of American Studies, utopian studies, and postcolonial theory by situating this growing anti-colonial literature as part of an American utopian tradition. In the key early decades of the twentieth century, Ahmad shows, the intellectuals of the colonized world carried out the heady work of imagining independent states, often from a position of exile. Faced with that daunting task, many of them composed literary texts--novels, poems,…

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List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/2/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.49" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Dohra Ahmad is a professor at St. John's University, where she teaches postcolonial literature. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family.



Introduction: Real Networks and Imaginary Vistas



Developing Nations



Evolution:




Eugenics:




A Periodical Nation



Culture:




Nationalism:




Personification:




Transnationalism:




Worlds of Color



Resurrection:




Romance:




Rationalism:



Epilogue: Multicultural Utopia?


Notes


Bibliography


Index