Utopia in the Age of Globalization

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: “A map of the world that does not include Utopia”

   • Robert T. Tally Jr.

   Pages 1-9

3. The End of Utopia at the Present Time

   • Robert T. Tally Jr.

   Pages 10-28

4. A Meditation on the Impossible

   • Robert T. Tally Jr.

   Pages 29-47

5. Power to the Imagination

   • Robert T. Tally Jr.

   Pages 48-65

6. Mapping the Postnational World System

   • Robert T. Tally Jr.

   Pages 66-93

7. Conclusion: Hic Sunt Dracones

   • Robert T. Tally Jr.

   Pages 94-101

8. Back Matter

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The idea of "Utopia" has made a comeback in the age of globalization, and the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the present era call for novel forms of utopia. Tally argues that a new form of utopian discourse is needed for understanding, and moving beyond, the current world system.

• Imagination
• novel
• space
• time

"A timely and significant intervention in contemporary discussions of globalization and utopia. The scope of the book is wide-ranging and ambitious, touching on a richly diverse set of topics, including contemporary critical theory, the figure of the world market, financial derivatives, the spaces of the global city, and narrative." - Phillip E. Wegner, Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar, University of Florida, USA and author of Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity, Life Between Two Deaths, 1989 2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties, and Periodizing Jameson; or, The Adventures of Theory in Post-Contemporary Times.

Robert T. Tally Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. He is the translator of Bertrand Westphal s Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces.

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