Futurescapes: Space in Utopian and Science Fiction In generic terms, utopia is a literary space which has been specifically designed to serve a cultural purpose: it depicts future societies and imaginary landscapes or whole worlds that construct, sustain and circulate the idea of a culturally and politically unified community of individuals. In the case of anti-utopias, we may say that their ironical or skeptical attitude challenges or deconstructs the plausibility and feasibility of those homogenizing spaces. The aim of this book is to open analysis of utopian literature to new lines of inquiry and to side-step the established generic binary of utopia, anti-utopia and dystopia (or science fiction). It proposes to think of utopias not so much as fictional texts about change and transformation but as a cultural process through which social, spatial and subjective identities are formed. Utopias can be read as textual systems implying a distinct spatial and temporal dimension; their formative strategies (extrapolation, imaginary projection, spatial juxtaposition, etc.) are linked with generic structures and narrative typologies such as the pastoral, the exotic, the sublime and the picturesque. The planned collection of essays seeks to absorb recent constructivist approaches to questions of culture and identity into a model that would ask not just what utopia is or means but what it actually does, how it works as a cultural practice. Utopia as literary form and cultural medium fulfils a double function with respect to ideology: some utopias naturalize a cultural and social construction (that of the good life, the radically improved welfare state, the Christian paradise, the counter-society, etc.), representing an artificial world as if it were given or politically inevitable, and they also make that representation operational by interpellating their readers in some determinate relation to their givenness as sites of political and individual improvement. Utopian discourse, as thus envisaged, is not merely a body of writing to be interpreted in a historical context but a set of cultural and economic practices that makes history in both the real and represented alternative environment, playing a central role in the formation of public selves figured by regional or national identities. Contributors are asked to explore the various ways in which utopian works novels, tales, or even poems of the distant as well as the more recent past have circulated as media of cultural exchange and homogenization, as sites of cultural and linguistic appropriation and as foci for the spatial formation of national and regional identities in different English-speaking countries. Possible issues and topics for examination include: - the homogenization of alternative space in utopian writing (egalitarianism, theology, totalitarianism, etc.)
- the de-hierarchization of homogeneous cultural space (in the context of postcolonial and postwestern literatures) - the dissolution / transformation of narrative space into non-space (as employed in cyberpunk fiction, e. g.) - the spatial relationship between politically entrenched societies and alternate political possibilities (e. g. Thomas More s utopian island and Tudor England) - the historicity of space and spatiality (e. g. with respect to those historical periods when utopian discourse was transformed by new discoveries and explorations) - the mutuality of utopian and cartographic space (fictive maps and their historical or imaginative influence on utopian writing) - the relation between urban and linguistic space (the dimension of architectural planning, geometric or symmetric layout of streets and housing, the radial city, etc.) - the contract between utopian space and the formation of regional and / or national identities - the invention and function of fictive languages and identities in utopias and dystopias (A. Burgess, Clockwork Orange, Suzette Elgin, Native Tongue, etc.) Note on publication, essay length and deadline: - Futurescapes is scheduled as one of the forthcoming volumes in the Spatial Practice series of yearbooks (general editors Stephan Kohl and Robert Burden), published by Rodopi in Amsterdam - Essays should not exceed 9500 words in length - The planned publication date is summer 2008; essays should be sent to the editor by January 2008
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