Imaginary Communities

Wegner, Phillip E.

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“…works that participate in the generic institution of the narrative utopia are involved in the project of remaking the form so that it will be adequate to a changing experience of modernity." 18 Therefore, in considering the question of utopia as method, it may be possible to mobilize the remaking of the utopian form to open up perspectives on history.…”

Section: Excavating the Futurementioning

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Excavating the Future: Utopia as a Method of Historical Analysis

Stainforth¹

2021

Utopian Studies

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Excavating the Future: Utopia as a Method of Historical Analysis

Stainforth¹

2021

Utopian Studies

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“…This is how Caesar’s Column passes through and disrupts the material and ideological contexts where it originated. By presenting a detailed image of a radically and unexpectedly new – what Bloch calls the Novum – and a glimpse into the Ultimum – the ‘total leap out of everything that previously existed’ (cited in Wegner, 2002: 20) – this singularly ambivalent cataclysmic utopia astonishes whoever reads it.…”

Section: Populist Redemption: the Case Of Caesar’s Columnmentioning

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“…Caesar’s body changes as the revolt progresses, his physical mutations being a result of Donnelly’s own political and racial anxieties (e.g. Donnelly, 1890: 149) concerning the ‘immigrant-worker-anarchist-socialist complex’ (Wegner, 2002: 123). No less importantly, this transmogrification is also a projection of populist hopes and fears: Caesar’s body, after all, represents the populist people.…”

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Populism and the politics of redemption

Silva

Vieira

2018

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This article re-examines current definitions of populism, which portray it as either a powerful corrective to or the nemesis of liberal democracy. It does so by exploring a crucial but often neglected dimension of populism: its redemptive character. Populism is here understood to function according to the logic of resentment, which involves both socio-political indignation at injustice and envy or ressentiment. Populism promises redemption through regaining possession: of a lower status, a wounded identity, a diminished or lost control. Highly moralized images of the past – historical or archetypal – are mobilized by populist leaders to castigate the present and accelerate the urgency of change in it. The argument is illustrated with Caesar’s Column, a futuristic novel written by the Minnesota populist leader Ignatius Donnelly. The complex and ambivalent structure of this dystopian novel – a textual source for the Populist Party manifesto in the 1890s, which stands in contrast with agrarian populism as everyday utopia – enables us to move beyond the polarized positions dominating the current debate. Reading Caesar’s Column ultimately shows that populism can be both a corrective and a danger to democracy, but not for the reasons usually stated in the literature.

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“…(Mūr 1987, 14;Sārgint 2015, 10;ʾibrāhῑm 2013) . The English form "utopia" is derived from the Greek topos "place", while the prefix "u" denotes "no", or "without" (Sed, 2017, 73;Wegner, 2002).…”

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Lost Utopia in Palestinian Flash Fiction

Saffuri khoury

2024

IJLLS

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The present study examines the use of dystopia as a device in Palestinian flash fiction composed by writers living in Israel. The study will look at three examples of flash fiction and investigate how dystopia is manifested in the stories' plot, characters and language, in an attempt to evaluate the relationship between the distorted reality that came into being after the war of 1948 and the social, political and economic effects it left. I therefore examined the themes which Palestinian writers have addressed in flash fiction and investigated their use of dystopia in order to express the state of crisis in which Palestinians inside Israel live, and how this affects the plot, the language and the characters. Our study shows that dystopia has been used in order to express the state of crisis in which individuals live and their inability to accept the psychological and economic damage left by the war, as reflected in the characters, who gradually lose their hope for a secure future.

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Imaginary Communities

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Excavating the Future: Utopia as a Method of Historical Analysis

Excavating the Future: Utopia as a Method of Historical Analysis

Populism and the politics of redemption

Lost Utopia in Palestinian Flash Fiction

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