Demand the impossible : : science fiction and the Utopian imagination / / Tom Moylan.

• Superior document: Ralahine Utopian Studies ; Volume 14
• VerfasserIn: Moylan, Tom,
• TeilnehmendeR: Baccolini, Raffaella,
• Place / Publishing House: Bern, Switzerland : : Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Ralahine utopian studies ; Volume 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (363 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Although published in 1986, Demand the Impossible was written from inside the oppositional political culture of the 1970's. Reading works by Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Samuel R. Delany as indicative texts in the intertext of utopian science fiction, Tom Moylan originated the concept of the «critical utopia» as both a periodizing and conceptual tool for capturing the creative and critical capabilities of the utopian imagination and utopian agency. This Ralahine Classics edition includes the original text along with a new essay by Moylan (on Aldous Huxley's Island) and a...

Table of Contents

Cover; Contents; Introduction to the Classics Edition; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction: The Critical Utopia; Part One: Theory; Chapter 2: The Utopian Imagination; Chapter 3: The Literary Utopia; Part Two: Texts; Chapter 4: Joanna Russ, ""The Female Man""; Chapter 5: Ursula K. Le Guin, ""The Dispossessed""; Chapter 6: Marge Piercy, ""Woman on the Edge of Time""; Chapter 7: Samuel R. Delany, ""Triton""; Chapter 8: Conclusion; Additional Material (2014); Chapter 9: "And we are here as on a darkling plain": Reconsidering Utopia in Huxley's ""Island""

Chapter I0: Reflections on ""Demand the Impossible""(Raffaella Baccolini) Introduction; (Lucy Sargisson) A Breath of Fresh Air; (Peter Fitting) ""Demand the Impossible"" and the Imagination of a Utopian Alternative; (Andrew Milner) Tom Moylan's ""Demand the Impossible""; (Lyman Tower Sargent) Miscellaneous Reflections on the "Critical Utopia"; (Kathi Weeks) Timely and Untimely Utopianism; (Gib Prettyman) Extrapolating the Critical Utopia; (Ruth Levitas) We Argue How Else?; (Antonis Balasopoulos) The Negation of Negation: On ""Demand the Impossible"" and the Question of Critical Utopia

(Ildney Cavalcanti) Very Inspiring - and Still Highly in Demand (Phillip E. Wegner) Musings from a Veteran of the Culture Wars; or, Hope Today; (Raffaella Baccolini) Preserving the Dream; (Tom Moylan) A Closing Comment (For Now At Least); Notes to the First Edition; Bibliography of the First Edition; Index