Author: Wegner, Phillip E.
Title: Imaginary Communities : Utopia, the Nation and the Spatial Histories of Modernity
Description: Berkeley [CA], Univ. of California Press, 2002. orig.cloth. 24x16cm, 330 pp.. A stain to rear cover. VG. ¶ Contents: Genre & the Spatial Histories of Modernity; 'Utopia' & the Birth of Nations; Writing the New American (Re)Public: Remembering & Forgetting in 'Looking Backward'; The Occluded Future: 'Red Star' and 'The Iron Heel' as "Critical Utopias"; A Map of Utopia's "Possible Worlds": Zamyatin's 'We'& LeGuin's 'The Dispossessed'; Modernity, Nostalgia & the Ends of Nations in Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'. ["Drawing from literary history, social theory, and political critique, this study explores the utopian narrative as a medium for understanding the social space of the modern nation-state. It considers the ideas of writers such as Ernst Bloch, Louis Marin, Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger" - publisher's description].

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Utopia, Utopian Literature, Utopias, Critical Theory, , , ,