Trans/Forming Utopia - Volume I

The Editor: Elizabeth Russell is a senior lecturer in British literatures and critical theory in the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain. She has published articles in the area of utopian studies, feminisms and multiculturalisms. Recent publications include Somnis d’Utopies published in Catalan (2007) and two edited volumes of essays: Caught Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities (2002) and Loving Against the Odds: Women’s Writing in English in a European Context (Peter Lang, 2006). She is also a member of two research groups: GRÈC (Gènere, raça, ètnia i classe) and T-CLAA (Transformacions Culturals i Literàries en angles i alemany).

• Contents: Elizabeth Russell: Introduction – Jacqueline Dutton: Forever Young? French Perspectives on Ageing in Global Communities of the Future – Elvin Aydoğdu: Torremolinos 73 and Namuslu: Spain and Turkey as Dystopias in the 1970s and 80s, and Their Postmodern Futures – Simona Sangiorgi: The Disney Parlance: An On-Stage Utopia Out of Backstage Dystopia – Maria Bonet/John Style: Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven: Utopian Forms and Utopian Functions – Saul Newman: Anarchism, Utopianism and the Politics of Emancipation – Henning Wrage: Ernst Bloch on the Dialectic of Human Rights – James H. Read: Universal Empowerment as a Utopian Idea – Saskia Poldervaart: The Relationship Between Anarchism, Utopianism and Feminism. Utopianism as a Strategy of Social Movements – Elizabeth Russell: No Place, No Body: Lastmanism and Lastwomanism – Francis Shor: A Better (or, Battered) World is Possible: Utopian/Dystopian Dialectics in the American Century – Sara Martín Alegre: Apocalypse Soon? The Uncertain Utopia of Steven Spielberg’s Adaptation of H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds – Annette M. Magid: Intricacies of Intertitles in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis – Ian Donnachie: A New Moral World? International Dimensions of Owenism 1815-1830 – Maria da Conceição Meireles Pereira: Iberia and Euchronia - a Portuguese Federalist Project (1854) – Evandro Bocatto/Eloïsa Pérez de Toledo: E-learning as a Tool for Community Critical Education and Development.