The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

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The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945 is written by Sherryl Vint and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1009188216 (ISBN 10) and 9781009188210 (ISBN 13).

Providing a comprehensive overview of American thought in the period following World War II, after which the US became a global military and economic leader, this book explores the origins of American utopianism and provides a trenchant critique from the point of view of those left out of the hegemonic ideal. Centring the voices of those oppressed by or omitted from the consumerist American Dream, this book celebrates alternative ways of thinking about how to create a better world through daily practices of generosity, justice, and care. The chapters collected here emphasize utopianism as a practice of social transformation, not as a literary genre depicting a putatively perfect society, and urgently make the case for why we need utopian thought today. With chapters on climate change, economic justice, technology, and more, alongside chapters exploring utopian traditions outside Western frameworks, this book opens a new discussion in utopian thought and theory.