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Description Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America Author: Dohra Ahmad Hardcover: 264 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (March 2, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0195332768 ISBN-13: 978-0195332766 Format: PDF  Summary: Landscapes of Hope: Anti-Colonial Utopianism in America examines anti-colonial discourse during the understudied but critical period before World War Two, with a specific focus on writers and activists based in the United States. Dohra Ahmad adds 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, Ahmad shows, 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 colored emancipation. [Amazon] Seed, Share, Gain knowledge || Don't forget to give thumbs up Any problem with my uploads, or if they need re-seeding, please PM me. Thanks. Sharing Widget |