Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature and Society

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ventura, Patricia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Chan, Edward K. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: United States-Study and teaching.; America-Literatures.; Comparative literature.; African Americans.; Ethnology-Latin America.; American Culture.; North American Literature.; Comparative Literature.; African American Culture.; Latino Culture.

Bringing together a variety of scholarly voices, this book argues for the necessity of understanding the important role literature plays in crystallizing the ideologies of the oppressed, while exploring the necessarily racialized character of utopian thought in American culture and society. Utopia i...