| I explore a conceptual landscape of a new utopia which is the birthplace of creativity, active thought, the continual process of conscious transformation, experimentation, and the realignment of existing elements. Moreover, it is in the space of the book, or the written text, that experimental utopia(n)(ism) can be regenerated and appreciated in the forces already at work. However, the propagation of such activity requires a reconceptualization of utopia(n)(ism) and, therefore, a reconsideration of common sense in regards to each concept with which it connects.; As the conceptual fluidity increases, a collaborative transformation of literature through the efforts of both reader and writer becomes crucial. Gilles Deleuze offers an experimental approach to literature in which writer, reader, text and the book itself are taken up in a variable state of becoming. Utilizing such Deleuzian concepts as the 'rhizome', 'nomadism' and 'deterritorialization-reterritorialization' to the writing and reading of 'new' utopian literature, serves to extend transgressive potentials in terms of boundary-traversal, language-innovation, and identity-dispersal and also challenge the exclusivity of how utopian literature is commonly distinguished. The academic affirmation of an inventive utopia(n)(ism), which aims to explore rather than designate through both literary and theoretical texts, will unfurl the vigorous possibilities of the psyche beyond the skeptical stagnations of feminism(s). (Abstract shortened by UMI.)... |
