Review:
"In a series of wrenching, heretical re-readings of its classics, Marianne DeKoven rescues the decade of the sixties from a false familiarity and restores a sense of its adventurous if fragile alliance between literature and theory, modernist utopian critique and the messy creativity of the postmodern present. Instead of the usual nostalgia and polemic, Utopia Limited delivers intellectual precision and tough love. The story of the sixties has never been told with more rigor or more freshness."--Bruce Robbins, author of Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress
"Marianne DeKoven has written a blueprint for how to delve deep into the sixties without romantic or cynical nostalgia. She recaptures fully that cultural moment by showing how sixties writers kept sliding back and forth between totalizing dreams of utopia and more private and diverse expressions of their wishes and identities."--Ann Snitow, coeditor of The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation
"Utopia Limited will set in place a new way of understanding the interface between social, cultural, and political impulses in the sixties. Its aim--and its success--is not simply to mark out what we can now see as the emergent postmodern in texts as diverse as The Port Huron Statement and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but to interpret, through attentive close readings, precisely how and where the modern and nascent postmodern are joined in such texts."--Cora Kaplan, author of Sea Changes: Essays on Culture and Feminism
From the Back Cover:
""Utopia Limited "will set in place a new way of understanding the interface between social, cultural, and political impulses in the sixties. Its aim--and its success--is not simply to mark out what we can now see as the emergent postmodern in texts as diverse as "The Port Huron Statement" and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, " but to interpret, through attentive close readings, precisely how and where the modern and nascent postmodern are joined in such texts."--Cora Kaplan, author of "Sea Changes: Essays on Culture and Feminism"
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