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Part I. Introductories -- 1. Preface; Kenneth M. Roemer -- 2. Introduction; Patricia Ventura -- 3. Aethiopian Devils Are White: Constructions of Race in Early Modern Utopian Texts; Jane Campbell -- Part II. African American Literatures of Utopia from the Past to the Afrofuture -- 4. The Illusory Promises of Freedom: Frederick Douglass and the Utopia of Liberation; David Lemke -- 5. Intratextual Utopianism in Pauline Hopkins' Of One Blood; Or, the Hidden Self and the Colored American Magazine; Amber Foster -- 6. Inevitable Hell? Eutopia and Race in George S. Schuyler's Black No More; Tarshia Stanley -- 7. Black Power Utopia: Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light, and the Revolutionary Afrofuturism of 1962-1974; Mark Tabone -- 8. Utopianism, Anti-utopianism, and Cultural Appropriation: Mike Resnick's Kirinyaga; Jeffrey Allen Tucker -- 9. Re-Programming the Present: The Dynamism of Black Futurity in Nalo Hopkinson Novels"; Cienna Davis -- 10. Race and Utopia in Mat Johnson's Pym; Julie Fiorelli -- 11. Someone Else's Hell: Utopia in N.K. Jemisin's Dreamblood Duology; Susana Morris -- 12. Afrotopia and Afrofuturism: Seeking a Happy Place in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Rail -- road and Nisi Shawl's Everfair; Isiah Lavender III -- Part III. Utopian Literatures of Race and Ethnicity -- 13. Nineteenth Century American Utopianism and the Attempted Reform of a Native American Tribe: From Fourierist Social Experiment to Mass Murder; Charles W. Nuckolls -- 14. Utopian Citizenship and Contemporary Arab-American Literature; Joseph Donica -- 15. The White Nationalist Utopia and the Reproduction of Victimized Whiteness; Edward K. Chan -- 16. "Strange Times to be a Jew"—Themes of Whiteness, Identity, and Sanctuary in the Imagined Jewish Utopias of Grand Island and Sitka; Justin Nordstrom -- 17. Looking Inward: Charles Yu and the Impossibility of Private Utopias; Betsy Huang -- 18. The Tale of the Tattoo: Latino/Americans, Race, and Utopia in Ink; Tace Hedrick and Karina Vado

The paper is an attempt to study on how there is deeply rooted connection between Manipuri society and its literature. The thrust of the study is on the translated version of Manipuri poetries of few of the selected writers. The paper will closely focus on how social turmoil and unrest can have a deep impact upon its literature. How their writing try to define gender conscious society of Manipur. The writer cannot run away from the harsh reality that is happening around them. For decades Manipuri people are having unrest social and political rights. The chaotic turbulence is beautifully captured by many writers trying to find solution in their possible ways. The legacy of Manipuri literature is young compared to other existing literature in India. Its literature has its own richness of native sensibility and there are few writers who are acknowledge by other mainstream literary body in India. The paper attempted to unfold the inner most meaning of the writer views through analysis.

Written by one of the world's leading scholars in the field this text presents a critical history of sociology in Britain, a vivid and authoritative picture of the neglect, expansion fragmentation and explosion of the discipline during the past century