Introduction: Property and heterotopia

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2016-05-01

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10.1215/00295132-3458149

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Armstrong, N (2016). Introduction: Property and heterotopia. Novel, 49(1). pp. 1–4. 10.1215/00295132-3458149 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/10919.

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Nancy Armstrong

Gilbert, Louis, and Edward Lehrman Distinguished Professor Emerita of English

Nancy Armstrong has served as editor of the journal Novel: A Forum on Fiction since 1996 and serves as co-organizer of The Novel Project at Duke, a faculty research seminar. Her scholarship explains how novels imagine a world that can be inhabited (or not) in specific ways by historically and culturally variable readerships. Currently focused on the contemporary novel, she continues to address questions of how modern cultures imagine themselves as a political society: Have, do, or can novels imagine alternative social formations?  What narrative mechanisms make it possible for them to do so?  How do novels presume to change their readers in the process?  How do these "arguments" against the status quo engage political theories that attempt the same feat? Can any such alternative leave the formation we call "the family" intact?


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