Utopia, Kinship, and Desire

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Title:	Utopia, Kinship, and Desire
Author:	Carroll, Jordan S.
Description:	This paper explores the notion of expanded or universal kinship featured in literary utopias, particularly Samuel R. Delany's science fiction novels, Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia and Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand, Drawing on theorists of utopia including Ruth Levitas, Carl Freedman, Tom Moylan, David Harvey, Ernst Bloch, and Theodor Adorno, this paper examines the ways in which kinship provides a way of figuring utopian solidarity. Kath Weston's ethnographic description of families of choice is given as a model for overcoming the problems posed by solidarities patterned after blood or identity based kinship.
Permanent Link:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1213363990 http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/19046
Date:	2008

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