Table of contents for The utopian fantastic : selected essays from the twentieth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts / edited by Martha Bartter.


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1. Not So Blind Hope: An Introduction
Thomas J. Morrissey
2. Dark Shadows and Bright Lights: Generators and Maintainers
of Utopias and Dystopias
Roger C. Schlobin
3. Mapping Utopia: Spatial and Temporal Sites of Meaning
John C. Hawley
4. We Are Marching to Utopia: Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano
Donald E. Morse
5. David Mamet's The Water Engine: The Utopian Ideal as Social
Control
Jeanne Beckwith
6. Kim Stanley Robinson's Martian Vision
Carl Swidorski
7. Women and Mad Science: Women as Witnesses to the Scientific
Re-creation of Humanity
Cherilyn Lacy
8. Digital Ambivalence: Utopia, Dystopia, and the Digital Cosmos
Dennis M. Weiss
9. Apprehending Identity in the Alldera Novels of Suzy McKee
Charas
Bill Clemente
10. You Can't Go Home Again: Kirinyaga by Mike Resnick
Lynn F. Williams and Martha Bartter
11. "Momutes": Momentary Utopias in Tepper's Trilogies
Robin Anne Reid



12. Of Dystopias and Icons: Brin's The Postman and Butler's
Parable of the Sower
Oscar De Los Santos
13. Beyond Personal Introspection: Classroom Response to Sherri
Tepper's The Gate to Women's Country
Tamara Wilson
14. The Nature of "Outsider Dystopias": Atwood, Starhawk,
and Abbey
Sharon Stevenson
15. News from Somewhere: A Case for Romance-Tradition
Fantasy's Reformist Poetic
Kelly Searsmith
Index
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Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Fantasy literature History and criticism Congresses, Horror tales History and criticism Congresses, Fantastic, The, in literature Congresses, Fantastic, The, in art Congresses