Contents

• Philipp Kneis:
  Introduction: Utopia and America

PART ONE: UTOPIAN CITIES

• Rasmus Damkjær Christensen & Martin Dalgaard Grøn:
  Ecotopian Perspectives:
  Environmental Realities in American Politics and Literature

• Renate Ulbrich:
  "California Dreamin'": Utopian and Dystopian Images of Space

• Antje Dallmann:
  From Behind Bow Windows:
  The Metropolis and Mental Life in 19th-Century American Fiction

PART TWO: UTOPIAN POLITICS

• Philipp Kneis:
  Finding Atlantis Instead of Utopia:
  From Plato to Starfleet and Stargate Command

• Philipp Kneis:
  Barbarians at the Gate:
  (Ig)Noble Savages and Manifest Destiny at the Final Frontier

• Katarzyna Sobieraj:
  The Post 9/11 Dystopia?
  The Representation of the World in 24

PART THREE: UTOPIAN SOCIETY

• Sandra Beyer
  A Utopia for Conservatives and Real Men:
  Sexual Politics and Gendered Relations in Star Trek

• Thomas Wagenknecht:
  Two "Eurotopian" Projections of America
  at the Disjuncture between Chimera and Understanding

• Allison Davis-White Eyes:
  Beyond Canada

PART FOUR: UTOPIAN IDENTITIES

• Berenike Jung:
  Trauma Reenactment and Stalling in Batman Begins and Superman Returns

• Daniela Simon:
  New America: </PRESS ANY BUTTON TO INTERACT>
  
  
  

• Reinhard Isensee:
  Epilog