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This essay considers the prominence of the word "movement," and of ideas of fluidity, displacement and mobility in different forms across Hannah Arendt's writings of the 1950s and 1960s. I argue that Arendt made significant use of uterature in order to make sense of a range of plitical movements, including Nazism, the student protest movement of the 1960s, and Black Power. She did so because she found political theory - and especially Marxist ideas of the state and of class interest — to be singularly incapable of making sense of the phenomenon of a political movement. Nazism was characterized, for Arendt, by an abandonment of any settled political ideology, as well as by a need to be perpetually on the move, and to move and displace those who were subject to its power. I argue that in the 1960s, Arendt drew attention to a different form of pliticcal movement — the motion that is accorded to political subjects by their emotions. I claim that this later argument prefigures more recent work in the field of emotion studies, while providing a model for a different understanding of an inter-disciplinary English studies, which is itself on the move.

Castillo reviews 'The Serpent Within: Politics, Literature, and American Individualism' by Joseph C. Bertolini.

The 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia has directed attention toward the importance of utopianism. Utopian Horizons investigates the possibilities of cooperation between the humanities and the social sciences in the analysis of 20th century and contemporary utopian phenomena. The papers deal with major problems of interpreting utopias, the relationship of utopia and ideology, and the highly problematic issue as to whether utopia necessarily leads to dystopia. Besides reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary utopian investigations, the papers effectively represent the cons.

Knowledge production on Hiroshima and Nagasaki : the politics of representation and a critique of canonization -- Postcolonial Hiroshima mon amour : Franco-Japanese collaboration in the American shadow -- Validating and invalidating the national sentiment : Kamei Fumio and the early days of Japanese cinema on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- "You saw nothing in Hiroshima" : performing atomic bomb victimhood and the visibility of the hibakusha -- Entangled discourses : John Hersey and Nagai Takashi

Intro -- Index -- Utopia(n) Matters: Introduction -- PART I - UTOPIA MATTERS -- Utopia Matter: a personal testimony -- What is your field? -- On the exit from one's cave: Utopian thoughts on language diversities -- Out to save the world: scholars and the utopian vision -- Why I am a member of the "Party of Utopia -- Utopia Matters? -- Utopia Matters! -- Why Utopia Matters -- Pourquoi l'utopie? -- PART II - UTOPIAN MATTERS -- THEORY -- From Contemporary Utopias to Contemporaneity as a Utopia -- Criticism as Utopia -- Postmodern Utopianism: Deleuze and Guattari and the Escape from Politics -- Brief Notes on Utopia, Dystopia and History -- POLITICS -- The Intersection of Utopianism and Communitarianism -- Holistic Organizations, Intentional Communities, and the Global Peace and Justice Movement: Gaia at Alcatraz, Italy -- Utopia and Agriculture: Reconsidering the Reforms of tha CAP from the Standpoint of Owen's Communitarianism -- The Good Time Coming": British Utopian Socialism in the Wake of 1848 -- Literature and Propaganda: The Socialist Utopia of Robert Blatchford -- Utopian Gesture in the Cold Climate of Thatcherism: Caryl Churchill's Top Girls and Fen -- LITERATURE AND THE ARTS -- The Dynamics of Space in the 20th Century Utopian/Dystopian Fiction -- Art as Utopia in Eutopean Avant-garde Movements -- Art and Aesthetics in Utopia: William Morris's Response to the Challenge of the "Art to the People -- Utopian Music: Music History of the Future in Novels by Bellamy, Callenbach and Huxley -- Music and Utopia - The European Anthem: Kant, Schiller and Beethoven -- Cyberpunk versus Empire: Constructing Technotopia in the New World Order -- Images of Upotia and Dystopia: From the Sea to Hyperspace.

Not until the eighteenth century was the image of the tender, full-time mother invented. This image retains its power today. Inventing Maternity demonstrates that, despite its association with an increasingly standardized set of values, motherhood remained contested terrain. Drawing on feminist, cultural, and postcolonial theory, Inventing Maternity surveys a wide range of sources--medical texts, political tracts, religious doctrine, poems, novels, slave narratives, conduct books, and cookbooks. The first half of the volume, covering the mid-seventeenth to the late eighteenth centuries, consid

"Festschrift honoring Ellis Sandoz, director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies and editor of Collected Works of Eric Voegelin. Essays explore philosophy, literature, and politics, and focus on Xenophon, Natsume, Freud, Robert Penn Warren, and George Santayana"--Provided by publisher