Critical utopias

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 Ernst Bloch, The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays, trans. Jack Zipes and Frank Mecklenberg (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1989), p. 4. 2 Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope, trans. Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice and Paul Knight (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press 1995). 3 Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form: Twentieth Century Dialectical Theories of Literature (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971), pp. 110–11. 4 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, What is Philosophy?, trans. H. Tomlinson and G. Burchell (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), p. 98. 5 See Eugene W. Holland, 'The utopian dimension of thought in Deleuze and Guattari', in Milner et al. Imagining the Future: Utopia and Dystopia (Melbourne: Arena, 2006), pp. 217–42. 6 Thomas More, Utopia (1516), ed. and introd. by Susan Bruce (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 123. 7 Ibid., p. 50. 8 Ibid., p. 63. 9 Interestingly, a year after the publication of Utopia, More's brother-in-law John Rastell attempted to colonize America himself. 10 George Lamming, The Pleasures of Exile (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1992). 11 Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719), ed. Michael Shinagel (New York and London: Norton 1994), p. 94. 12 Ibid., p. 174. 13 Ernst Bloch, The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays, trans. Jack Zipes and Frank Mecklenburg (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1989). 14 Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and other Science Fictions (London: Verso 2005), p. xii. 15 Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 2000), p. 210. 16 Ibid., pp. 319, 321. 17 Ibid., p. 395. 18 James S. Scott, Domination and the Arts of Resistance (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990), p. 81. 19 Zygmunt Bauman, Socialism: The Active Utopia (New York: Homes and Meier, 1976), p. 47. 20 Fredric Jameson, 'The politics of Utopia', New Left Review, 2nd series, 25 (2004), p. 43. 21 Paul Ricoeur, Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), p. 17. 22 Tom Moylan, Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination (New York: Methuen, 1986), p. 213. 23 J.M. Coetzee, Foe (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986), p. 118. 24 Ibid., p. 121. 25 Ibid., p. 141. 26 Ibid., p. 157. 27 Ibid., 28 Stuart Hall, 'Cultural identity and diaspora' in Jonathan Rutherfor, ed., Identity: Community, Culture, Difference (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1990). 29 Edouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays trans. with introd. by J. Michael Dash (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1989), p. 64. 30 See http://www.southproject.org/speakers/hauofa.htm. 31 Bloch, The Utopian Function of Art and Literature, p. 3. 32 Chiekh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilization ed. and trans. by Mercer Cook (Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill, 1974). 33 Ayi Kwai Armah, KMT: In the House of Life (Popenguine, Senegal: Per Ankh, 2002), cover. 34 Ibid., p. 134. 35 Ibid. 36 Ibid., p. 135. 37 Ibid., p. 149. 38 Ibid., p. 345. 39 Douglas McNeill, 'Reading the maps', in Milner et al., Imagining the Future: Utopia and Dystopia (Melbourne: Arena, 2006), p. 78. 40 David Malouf, Remembering Babylon (London: Chatto & Windus, 1993), p. 129. 41 Ibid., p. 131. 42 Ibid., p. 65. 43 Derek Walcott, The Star Apple Kingdom (New York: Farrar Straus & Giraux 1979), p. 23 44 Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Islands (London: Oxford University Press, 1969), p. 39.