„Caietele Echinox”, Volume 46, 2024: Utopian Imaginaries

Contents

 

15 Vita Fortunati, Literary Utopias: My Personal Journey

 

Utopian/Dystopian Social and Political Imaginaries

31 Arthur Blaim, Nebulous Utopias. From “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer” to “China Dream”– The Use of Catchwords and Slogans in Constructing Imaginary Utopian/Dystopian Communities

39 Jean-Jacques Wunenburger, Santé publique, biopouvoir, gestion sanitaire des populations

45 Ionel Bușe, Du mythe de l’immortalité à l’utopie/dystopie transhumaniste

57 Barbara Klonowska, New World, Old Hope: Utopian Imaginaries in Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese

65 Francisco José Martínez Mesa, The Role of Mythical Dystopias in the Age of Fear

82 Hande Tunç, Imaginary Possibilities of New Babylon

96 Michel Macedo Marques, Caldeirão da Santa Cruz do Deserto (1926-1936): Utopia in Northeast of Brazil

113 Daniel Koechlin, “This Time We Take the Engine!”: Class War in Dystopian Films of the Occupy Era

 

Utopian/Dystopian Literary Imaginaries

129 Andrew Lee Bridges, Utopian Freedom and Value Portrayed in Hegel’s Comic Consciousness and Fictional Behaviorism 

139 Carmen Borbély, The Extravagance of Form in Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World

151 José Eduardo Reis & Chris Gerry, The Crisis of the Mind in the Modern Age and Its Poetic Consequences. Examples from Texts by Joyce, Zamiatin and Pessoa

167 Maria Barbu, Anarchetypal Journeys in Post-apocalyptic Narratives. The Implacable Darkness of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

181 Georgiana Tudor, J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy as Meta-Utopia

196 Elizabeth Russell, War Zones and Dystopian Imaginaries

207 Hasan Nassour, Abortion-Related Anxieties and Colonizing the Female Body in Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks

219 Elisabetta Di Minico, The Ages of Otherness: How Superhero Comics Reflect on Systemic Injustice and Racial and Gender Representation

 

Central and East-European Utopias/Dystopias

241 Kenneth Hanshew, The Negative and the Positive in Dystopia: Return from Paradise and The Blessed Age

252 Mariano Martín Rodríguez, When (Lesbian) Women Will Rule Over Men: Visions of Future Gynecocracy in a Novel from Interwar Romania

267 Ruxandra Cesereanu, Dystopias and Allegories about Communist Romania

275 Boris Lanin, Some New Terms in Dystopian Studies

283 Constantin Tonu, The Pan-Slavic Utopian Imaginary

 

Utopia/Dystopia and Science Fiction

301 Corin Braga, Voyages utopiques et SF dans deux romans grecs antiques 

323 Mauro Pala, Dystopia Revisited: Biopolitics as Remedy and Response to Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

335 Iren Boyarkina, Utopias and Dystopias in Last and First Men (1930) by William Olaf Stapledon

349 Alexander Popov, Paranoid Imaginaries and Megatextual Utopianism

365 Ljubica Matek, J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World: A Nonhuman Utopia

 

381 Library Survey

• Carmen Borbély, Erika Mihálycsa, Petronia Petrar (eds.), Temporalities of Modernism, Milano, Ledizioni, 2022

• Gregory Claeys, Utopianism for a Dying Planet. Life after Consumerism, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2022

• Mircea Muthu, Balcanismul literar românesc. Panoramic sud-est european. Confluențe culturale,Cluj-Napoca, Școala Ardeleană, 2017

• Mikhail Suslov, Marek Čejka, Vladimir Ðorđević (eds.), Pan- Slavism and Slavophilia in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe: Origins, Manifestations and Functions, London, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing, 2023

• Response note to Teona Farmatu, “Rereading the Literary Modernist Core”

 

413 Book Reviews

• Oana-Maria Bîrlea, Cultura kawaii și discursul publicitar japonez, Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2022

• Andreea Bugiac, La littérature française sous la loupe : baroque et classicisme, Cluj-Napoca, Casa Cărții de Știință, 2021

• Marco Caracciolo, Contemporary Narrative and the Spectrum of Materiality, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2023

• Ruxandra Cesereanu, Romania – From Communism to Post- Communism (Studies and Essays). Roumanie – Du communisme au post-communisme (Études et essais), Milano, Edizioni AlboVersorio, 2022

• Aurel Codoban, Sentimentul straniu al vieții, Cluj-Napoca, Editura Școala Ardeleană, 2023

• Teju Cole, Black Paper, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2021

• Czigányik Zsolt, Utopia Between East and West in Hungarian Literature, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

• Quentin Deluermoz, Pierre Singaravélou, Pour une histoire des possibles. Analyses contrafactuelles et futurs non advenus, Paris, Éditions Le Seuil, 2016

• Graphè, no. 31, Jean-Marc Vercruysse (éd.), Le sacrifice d’Isaac, Artois Presses Université, 2022

• Simona Gruian, Mitologii postmoderne, Cluj-Napoca, Casa Cărții de Știință, 2021

• Raphael Kabo, Utopia beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023

• Mazcelka Csaba, A kora újkori angol utópiák magyar története (The Hungarian History of Early Modern English Utopias), Kolozsvár, Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület, 2019

• Matei Stîrcea-Crăciun, Tratat de hermeneutică a sculpturii abstracte, Târgu Jiu, Editura Institutului Cultural Român, Editura Brâncuși, 2016