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The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945
  • Edited by Sherryl Vint
  • Published online:
    09 May 2024
    Print publication:
    16 May 2024
  • Providing a comprehensive overview of American thought in the period following World War II, after which the US became a global military and economic leader, this book explores the origins of American utopianism and provides a trenchant critique from the point of view of those left out of the hegemonic ideal. Centring the voices of those oppressed by or omitted from the consumerist American Dream, this book celebrates alternative ways of thinking about how to create a better world through daily practices of generosity, justice, and care. The chapters collected here emphasize utopianism as a practice of social transformation, not as a literary genre depicting a putatively perfect society, and urgently make the case for why we need utopian thought today. With chapters on climate change, economic justice, technology, and more, alongside chapters exploring utopian traditions outside Western frameworks, this book opens a new discussion in utopian thought and theory.

  • 6 - Afro-Futurism/Afro-Pessimism

  • from Part II - Approaches
  • Edited by Joshua Miller, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction
    Published online:
    02 September 2021
    Print publication:
    23 September 2021, pp 123-141

  • Summary

    The second section foregrounds methodological approaches to twenty-first century fiction, starting with Candice Jenkins’s examination of Afro-Futurism and Afro-Pessimism as conceptual frameworks within which contemporary African American fiction has represented the past and present during “the Black Lives Matter era.” Discerning an inherently speculative quality to the two separate bodies of thought, Jenkins argues they share a “a certain radicalism–one inclined towards both building and destroying worlds.” This speculative radicality infuses the work of a remarkably broad range of writers, including N. K. Jemisin, Jesmyn Ward, Colson Whitehead, with the generatively imagined restructured societies derived not from utopianism, but the negative affects of intractable historical racism.

  • Psychological and psychiatric factors related to health-related quality of life after total hip replacement – preliminary report

  • Karina Badura-Brzoza, Piotr Zajac, Zenon Brzoza, Alicja Kasperska-Zajac, Jerzy Matysiakiewicz, Magdalena Piegza, Robert T. Hese, Barbara Rogala, Jacek Semenowicz, Bogdan Koczy
  • Journal:
    European Psychiatry / Volume 24 / Issue 2 / March 2009
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 April 2020, pp. 119-124
  • Abstract

    Total hip replacement is one of the most successful orthopaedic interventions in improving considerably the patients' performance, nevertheless some patients demonstrate declined functional ability following an operation. Such condition is not a consequence of medical illness or the surgery itself but might rather be associated with mental status. The authors conduct an investigation concerning the relation between some psychological and psychiatric factors and their influence on health-related quality of life in patients after total hip replacement.

    Methods

    Into the study group we included 102 subjects undergoing total hip replacement (59 female, 43 male). In all subjects we measured depression (Beck Depression Inventory – BDI), anxiety (State and Trait Anxiety Inventory – STAI), sense of coherence (SOC-29), personality traits (Eysenck Personality Inventory – EPI) and health related quality of life (SF-36).

    Results

    The postoperative values of the PCS and the MCS for the whole group of patients correlated negatively with the SOC values (p = 0.04 and p = 0.03 respectively). Neuroticism (EPI) and anxiety as a trait (STAI) were also associated with postoperative performance, both in mental (p = 0.03 and p = 0.008 respectively) and physical (p = 0.005 and p = 0.04 respectively terms).

    Conclusion

    Total hip replacement improves significantly the patient’s health-related quality of life at 6 months after surgery, what is influenced by sense of coherence, neuroticism and anxiety as a trait. Above mentioned factors should be taken into account when rehabilitation and social readaptation processes are planned.

  • SF, Infrastructure, and the Anthropocene: Reading Moxyland and Zoo City

  • Brady Smith
  • Journal:
    Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry / Volume 3 / Issue 3 / September 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    21 October 2016, pp. 345-359

  • This essay probes the relationship between nature and infrastructure in Moxyland (2008) and Zoo City (2010), SF novels by the South African writer Lauren Beukes. I show, in one vein, how “nature” and “infrastructure” are not at all opposed in the way that ecocriticism and urban studies often suggest; in these speculative fictions, nature and infrastructure coincide, such that “nature” becomes coextensive with everyday life in these texts. At the same time, the essay uses Moxyland and Zoo City to explore a problem I take to be fundamental to literary and environmental studies in Africa, namely the place of African texts and contexts in the rapidly growing body of work on the Anthropocene, humanity’s new geologic age. Not only do these novels suggest yoking discourse on the Anthropocene to the new materialisms of scholars such as Jane Bennett or Bruno Latour, but the manner in which they do so can help us think about how to make the concept accessible to literary form.