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Escaping a dystopian present: compensatory and anticipatory utopias in Bruce Chatwin's The Viceroy of Ouidah and The Songlines.(Essays)

From: Utopian Studies  |  Date: 3/22/2003  |  Author: Williams, Marie

THIS ARTICLE EXPLORES Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines (1987) and The Viceroy of Ouidah (1980) in terms of their representation of and engagement with forms of utopian thinking. Whilst there is also scope for discussing In Patagonia (1977) in terms of utopia, I have chosen these texts because they each present a different aspect of Chatwin's utopian theorising and In Patagonia shares characteristics with each of these texts. I suggest that Chatwin's texts display a preoccupation with ...

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