Title Landscapes of hope : anti-colonial utopianism in America / Dohra Ahmad

Published [New York] : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 250 pages) Contents Introduction: real networks and imaginary vistas -- Developing nations -- Periodical nation -- Worlds of color -- Epilogue: multicultural utopia? Summary "Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America examines anti-colonial discourse during the understudied but critical period before World War II, with a specific focus on writers and activists based in the United States. The book contributes 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, 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, contemplative essays--in order to conceptualize the new societies they sought. Beginning by exploring some of the conventions of American utopian fiction at the turn of the century, Landscapes of Hope goes on to show the surprising ways in which writers such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Pauline Hopkins, Rabindranath Tagore, and Punjabi nationalist Lala Lajpat Rai appropriated and adapted those utopian conventions toward their own end of global emancipation of peoples of color"--Abstract from Table of contents page Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- History and criticism. Utopias in literature. Anti-imperialist movements -- United States Authors, American -- Political and social views Race in literature. Nationalism in literature. utopian literature. TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. American literature Anti-imperialist movements Authors, American -- Political and social views Nationalism in literature Race in literature Utopias in literature United States Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Oxford University Press ISBN 9780195332766 0195332768 9780199715695 0199715696 9780199868124 0199868123

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