Notes on nowhere : feminism, utopian logic and social transformation
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Notes on nowhere : feminism, utopian logic and social transformation
（American culture / edited by Stanley Aronowitz, Sandra M. Gilbert, and Jackson Lears, 13）
University of Minnesota Press, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: hbk ISBN 9780816626380
内容説明
The term "utopia" implies both "good place" and "nowhere". Since Sir Thomas More wrote "Utopia" in 1516, the debate over utopian models of society has fallen on all points between these somewhat contradictory definitions. This work engages the literary cross section of contemporary feminist science fiction to examine the tradition of utopian writing. The study provides close readings of the science fiction novels of four feminist writers - Sally Gearhard, Joanna Russ, Marge Piercy and Monique Wittig - and poses questions central to utopian writing: do these texts promote a tradition in which models of the ideal society have been used to hide rather than reveal violence, oppression and social divisions? Can a feminist critical utopia offer a departure from this tradition by accepting contradiction and struggle as inevitable aspects of our thoughts about the future? What implications do these questions have for those who wish to use these social hypotheses for emancipatory political uses? As one way of answering these questions, the text compares the politics of two prevalent characters in utopian writing.
The first is the abstract, "revolutionary" subject who contradicts existing conditions. The second, "resistant" subject, is partial, concrete and produced by conditions rather than operating outside of them. In analyzing contemporary changes in the subject's relationship to social space, the work argues in favour of a collective "standpoint approach". By exploring the dilemmas, antagonisms and resolutions within the critical literary feminist utopia, the book creates connections to a similar set of problems and resolutions within "non-literary" discourses of social transformation such as those faced by feminism, gay and lesbian studies and Marxism.
目次
- Locational hazards - the utopian impulse and the logic of social transformation
- turning inward - strategies of containment and subjective/collective boundaries in traditional utopian literature
- speaking parts - internal dialogic and models of agency in the work of Joanna Russ and Octavia Butler
- utopia and technopolitics in "Woman on the Edge of Time"
- acting out "lesbian" - Monique Wittig and immanent critique
- conclusion: moveable locales - narrating unsutured utopia.
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: pbk. ISBN 9780816626397
内容説明
Notes on Nowhere was first published in 1997. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
The term utopia implies both "good place" and "nowhere." Since Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia in 1516, debates about utopian models of society have sought to understand the implications of these somewhat contradictory definitions. In Notes on Nowhere, author Jennifer Burwell uses a cross section of contemporary feminist science fiction to examine the political and literary meaning of utopian writing and utopian thought.
Burwell provides close readings of the science fiction novels of five feminist writers-Marge Piercy, Sally Gearhart, Joanna Russ, Octavia Butler, and Monique Wittig-and poses questions central to utopian writing: Do these texts promote a tradition in which narratives of the ideal society have been used to hide rather than reveal violence, oppression, and social divisions? Can a feminist critical utopia offer a departure from this tradition by using utopian narratives to expose contradiction and struggle as central aspects of the utopian impulse? What implications do these questions have for those who wish to retain the utopian impulse for emancipatory political uses?
As one way of answering these questions, Burwell compares two "figures" that inform utopian writing and social theory. The first is the traditional abstract "revolutionary" subject who contradicts existing conditions and who points us to the ideal body politic. The second, "resistant," subject is partial, concrete, and produced by conditions rather than operating outside of them. In analyzing contemporary changes in the subject's relationship to social space, Burwell draws from and revises "standpoint approaches" that tie visions of social transformation to a group's position within existing conditions.
By exploring the dilemmas, antagonisms, and resolutions within the critical literary feminist utopia, Burwell creates connections to a similar set of problems and resolutions characterizing "nonliterary" discourses of social transformation such as feminism, gay and lesbian studies, and Marxism. Notes on Nowhere makes an original, significant, and persuasive contribution to our understanding of the political and literary dimensions of the utopian impulse in literature and social theory.
Jennifer Burwell teaches in the Department of English at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
目次
- Locational hazards - the utopian impulse and the logic of social transformation
- turning inward - strategies of containment and subjective/collective boundaries in traditional utopian literature
- speaking parts - internal dialogic and models of agency in the work of Joanna Russ and Octavia Butler
- utopia and technopolitics in "Woman on the Edge of Time"
- acting out "lesbian" - Monique Wittig and immanent critique
- conclusion: moveable locales - narrating unsutured utopia.
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