Many thanks to Ruy Blanes and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen for their response my critique (Bråten 2022a) of special section on ‘Utopian Confluences’ (especially, 2021; 2021), Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale publishing the exchange. The theoretical questions that arise from our diverging stances are, hopefully, general interest. While I take (hereafter B&B) argue an epistemologically all-i...

There is something structurally amiss in a culture that only values women for their capacity to bear child which reflected misrepresentations literature confined stereotypes creates an endless room debate as what future store particularly post-humanist literature. This paper addresses how female fertility framed the texts of Margaret Atwood- The Handmaid’s Tale and Testaments (dystopian) Charlo...

utopian fantasy in the poetry of sohrab sepehri and abbas beydoun(a comparative study)tooraj zinivand *jahungir amiri **reza kiany ***abstractif we look at the poems of the iranian poet sohrab sepehri and lebanese poetabbas beydoun , we find that the fantasy adopted by poets imagination is linked topsychological factors, and this fantasy often comes in surreal manner in branches ofliterary, sym...