Demand the Impossible : Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination
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Demand the Impossible : Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination
（Ralahine classics）（Ralahine utopian studies, v. 14）
Peter Lang, c2014
[New ed]
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Previous ed.: London : Methuen, 1986
New ed. contains Introduction to the Classics Edition and New essay by Tom Moylan
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Although published in 1986, Demand the Impossible was written from inside the oppositional political culture of the 1970s. Reading works by Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Samuel R. Delany as indicative texts in the intertext of utopian science fiction, Tom Moylan originated the concept of the "critical utopia" as both a periodizing and conceptual tool for capturing the creative and critical capabilities of the utopian imagination and utopian agency. This Ralahine Classics edition includes the original text along with a new essay by Moylan (on Aldous Huxley's Island) and a set of reflections on the book by leading utopian and science fiction scholars.
Table of Contents
Contents: The Critical Utopia - The Utopian Imagination - The Literary Utopia - Joanna Russ, The Female Man - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed - Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time - Samuel R. Delany, Triton - "And we are here as on a darkling plain": Reconsidering Utopia in Huxley's Island - Reflections on Demand the Impossible.
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