Utopias, distopias e outras topografias do pensamento crítico: literatura, política e sociedade

Abstract

Even though they depart from different approaches — from theoretical and metathoeretical reflections to analyses of concrete social experiences, in dialogue with areas such as pedagogy, linguistics, sociology, and more specifically literary studies — the texts gathered here, despite their different perspectives, are akin in their thematic frame, once they are all concerned with utopianisms and dystopianisms. The present collection offers, therefore, in putting together diverse authors and perspectives, a comprehensive sample of reflections that have been developed by Brazilian researchers in the field of Utopian Studies, a knowledge area that has been gaining ground in the academic milieu as an important development of Cultural Studies. As a whole, this book testifies the permanent critical vocation that pervades the analyses of utopia and dystopia — both as political concepts and literary forms —, making of each and every chapter a specific space (a topos), at the same time critical and creative, that invites our gaze to distinct aspects, however interconnected, in areas such as literature, politics and society.