Envisioning American Utopias

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The volume discusses utopian representations of American society, and reflections of American political thought and vision in literature, film, and television. The articles address topics of ecology, urbanism, politics, society, and heroism. Specifically, the volume addresses texts by Paul Auster, Ernest Callenbach, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bernard-Henri Levy, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, Sam Shepard, Alexis de Toqueville, James Welch, and Nathanael West, and television series like "24," and the "Star Trek" and "Stargate" franchises, as well as video games. Contributors include Sandra Beyer, Rasmus Damkjaer Christensen, Antje Dallmann, Allison Davis-White Eyes, Martin Dalgaard Gron, Reinhard Isensee, Berenike Jung, Philipp Kneis, Daniela Simon, Katarzyna Sobieraj, Renate Ulbrich, and Thomas Wagenknecht."