Claire P Curtis
Biographic Data
| ID | 4005522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire P Curtis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire P |
| FAMILY NAME | Curtis |
| SIGNATURE | CURTIS C P |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Charleston |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9844-8900 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Inventions of Nemesis
I was reading Iris Marion Young’s Justice and the Politics of Difference (1990) simultaneous to reading Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation and Justice by Douglas Mao, which does not mention Young. Unsurprisingly, given Mao’s interesting inclusion of theorists of justice in his analysis of utopian literature, there are clear connections between Young’s understanding of what it means to think about justice and the reasons why Mao looks to t…
Epistemological Warfare and Hope in Critical Dystopia
This book is an application of the idea of critical dystopia to three understudied novels and the beginning of an argument about utopian desire itself. Emrah Atasoy, a prolific author who reviewed Turkish speculative fiction in a well-received 2021 Utopian Studies article, is modeling a search for hope in dystopian texts. In this book, derived from his dissertation, he examines three British novels written in three different eras of the twentieth…
Utopian Studies
The article reflects on Lyman Tower Sargent's role in fostering interdisciplinary inquiry
Standards of Justice for Human Being and Doing in Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312 and C. S. Friedman’s This Alien Shore
The creation of superior societies and communities in which bodies live better and thrive depends on richly detailed accounts of imagined societies including flexible theories of justice that can be used to evaluate them. Both Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312 (2012) and C. S. Friedman’s This Alien Shore (1998) attempt to rethink what bodies can do and be, by exploring ways of living together among those with different, and differently compatible, bodi…
Utopian Possibilities
Octavia Butler's trilogy Xenogenesis is useful text for opening conversation between scholars of utopia and scholars of disability. By reading Xenogenesis as critical utopia, the article argues that the trilogy is ambiguous about the idea of bodies while also articulating the foundation for fruitful community. The argument is that the Oankali are neither saviors nor demons, and the humans in the narrative are neither victims nor heroes. Instead, …
Postapocalyptic fiction and the social contract
Special Issue of Utopian Studies
Theorizing Fear
Research Article| January 01 2008 Theorizing Fear: Octavia Butler and the Realist Utopia Claire P. Curtis Claire P. Curtis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2008) 19 (3): 411–431. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719919 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Claire P. Curtis; Theorizing Fear: Octavia Butler and the Realist Utopia. Utopian Studies 1 January 2008; 19 (3): 411–431.…
Rehabilitating utopia
Twentieth century political philosophy takes for granted that the pursuit of utopia is dangerous for three reasons: pursuing utopia justifies the use of violence to accomplish its ends; it requires one to deny the individual in favor of the community; and it utilizes a mindset of mere problem-solving when asking the question of how humans should live together fruitfully. But these criticisms (articulated by Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls and Michael O…
Rehabilitating utopia
Twentieth century political philosophy takes for granted that the pursuit of utopia is dangerous for three reasons: pursuing utopia justifies the use of violence to accomplish its ends; it requires one to deny the individual in favor of the community; and it utilizes a mindset of mere problem-solving when asking the question of how humans should live together fruitfully. But these criticisms (articulated by Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls and Michael O…
Rehabilitating utopia
Twentieth century political philosophy takes for granted that the pursuit of utopia is dangerous for three reasons: pursuing utopia justifies the use of violence to accomplish its ends; it requires one to deny the individual in favor of the community; and it utilizes a mindset of mere problem-solving when asking the question of how humans should live together fruitfully. But these criticisms (articulated by Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls and Michael O…
Special Issue of Utopian Studies
Theorizing Fear
Research Article| January 01 2008 Theorizing Fear: Octavia Butler and the Realist Utopia Claire P. Curtis Claire P. Curtis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2008) 19 (3): 411–431. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719919 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Claire P. Curtis; Theorizing Fear: Octavia Butler and the Realist Utopia. Utopian Studies 1 January 2008; 19 (3): 411–431.…
Postapocalyptic fiction and the social contract
Utopian Possibilities
Octavia Butler's trilogy Xenogenesis is useful text for opening conversation between scholars of utopia and scholars of disability. By reading Xenogenesis as critical utopia, the article argues that the trilogy is ambiguous about the idea of bodies while also articulating the foundation for fruitful community. The argument is that the Oankali are neither saviors nor demons, and the humans in the narrative are neither victims nor heroes. Instead, …
Standards of Justice for Human Being and Doing in Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312 and C. S. Friedman’s This Alien Shore
The creation of superior societies and communities in which bodies live better and thrive depends on richly detailed accounts of imagined societies including flexible theories of justice that can be used to evaluate them. Both Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312 (2012) and C. S. Friedman’s This Alien Shore (1998) attempt to rethink what bodies can do and be, by exploring ways of living together among those with different, and differently compatible, bodi…
Utopian Studies
The article reflects on Lyman Tower Sargent's role in fostering interdisciplinary inquiry
Epistemological Warfare and Hope in Critical Dystopia
This book is an application of the idea of critical dystopia to three understudied novels and the beginning of an argument about utopian desire itself. Emrah Atasoy, a prolific author who reviewed Turkish speculative fiction in a well-received 2021 Utopian Studies article, is modeling a search for hope in dystopian texts. In this book, derived from his dissertation, he examines three British novels written in three different eras of the twentieth…
Inventions of Nemesis
I was reading Iris Marion Young’s Justice and the Politics of Difference (1990) simultaneous to reading Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation and Justice by Douglas Mao, which does not mention Young. Unsurprisingly, given Mao’s interesting inclusion of theorists of justice in his analysis of utopian literature, there are clear connections between Young’s understanding of what it means to think about justice and the reasons why Mao looks to t…
Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Utopia (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics (3 works)