The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia: A Comparative Introduction to the Utopian Novel in the New English Literatures. (Book Reviews).

Utopian Studies | March 22, 2001| | Copyright

Ralph Pordzik. The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia: A Comparative Introduction to the Utopian Novel in the New English Literatures.

Studies of World Literature in English Vol. 10. New York: Peter Lang, 2001. vii + 199 pp. $53.95.

RALPH PORDZIK TAKES ON the ambitious task of bringing together the two key terms of his title in a broad, comparative study. Pordzik's goal is to produce a framework for reading disparate contemporary texts through the lens of postcolonial theory and the utopian genre. These important fields of research have thus far not been combined ...

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