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Hugh J. Silverman — from utopia/dystopia to heterotopia: an interpretive topology

Hugh J. Silverman
- 01 Jul 1980 - 
- Vol. 7, Iss: 2, pp 170-182
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This article is published in Philosophy & Social Criticism.The article was published on 1980-07-01. It has received 3 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Heterotopia (space) & Dystopia.

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The Politics of Space: Vietnam as a Communist Heterotopia in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees

TL;DR: In this article, Nguyen's The Refugees explores hardships and aspirations of non-Communist Vietnamese led between two contradicting geographical imaginations, and analyses the ways in which the Communist Vietnam is ideologically signed as a heterotopia, or a rupture of a decent society.
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Borges's Postmodern Landscape

TL;DR: In this article, Vrbancic posits that postmodern mapping undermines our known familiar geography and that authors like Borges who experimented with different spaces and connections in their texts, represent postmodernism avant la lettre.
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Autobiographical textuality: The case of Thoreau’s Walden

Hugh J. Silverman
- 01 Jan 1982 - 
TL;DR: A textuality is the meaning structure of a text as discussed by the authors, i.e., the way a text is organized such that their significational interrelationships produce meaning formations, which are the textualities of the text.
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The Order of Things

TL;DR: The Order of Things as mentioned in this paper is one of the most significant works of the twenty-first century, and it was the seminal work of Foucault's later work on power and discourse that established his reputation as an intellectual giant.
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The Politics of Space: Vietnam as a Communist Heterotopia in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees

TL;DR: In this article, Nguyen's The Refugees explores hardships and aspirations of non-Communist Vietnamese led between two contradicting geographical imaginations, and analyses the ways in which the Communist Vietnam is ideologically signed as a heterotopia, or a rupture of a decent society.
Journal ArticleDOI

Borges's Postmodern Landscape

TL;DR: In this article, Vrbancic posits that postmodern mapping undermines our known familiar geography and that authors like Borges who experimented with different spaces and connections in their texts, represent postmodernism avant la lettre.
Journal ArticleDOI

Autobiographical textuality: The case of Thoreau’s Walden

Hugh J. Silverman
- 01 Jan 1982 - 
TL;DR: A textuality is the meaning structure of a text as discussed by the authors, i.e., the way a text is organized such that their significational interrelationships produce meaning formations, which are the textualities of the text.