Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Barnita Bagchi -- Utopia and dystopia : debates and resonances -- Utopia: future and/or alterity? / Miguel Abensour -- Echo of an impossible return : an essay concerning Fredric Jameson's utopian thought and gathering and hunting social relations / Peter Kulchyski -- Radicalism in early modern England : innovation or reformation? / Rachel Foxley -- Dystopia, utopia, and Akhtaruzzaman Elias's novel Khowabnama / Subhoranjan Dasgupta -- Palestine : land of utopias / Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun -- Engendering utopia and dystopia -- "One darling though terrific theme" : Anna Wheeler and the rights of women / Theresa Moriarty -- A parliament of women : dystopia in nineteenth-century Bengali imagination / Samita Sen -- "Empire builder" : a utopian alternative to citizenship for early-twentieth century British "ladies" / Martine Spensky -- Ladylands and sacrificial holes : utopias and dystopias in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's writings / Barnita Bagchi -- Utopia in the subjunctive mood : Bessie Head's When rain clouds gather / Modhumita Roy -- Coda : resistance -- Globalization, development, and resistance of utopian dreams to the praxis of dystopian utopia / Marie-Claire Caloz-Tschopp -- About the editor and contributors -- Index.