{"product_id":"nowhere-lands-karl-meiner-9781955499354","title":"Nowhere Lands: Exploring Utopian and Dystopian Voices","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNowhere Lands: Exploring Utopian and Dystopian Voices\u003c\/i\u003e features striking poetry, thought-provoking essays, and gripping narratives that explore the human condition and visions of what may be. This collection explores a continuum of societal extremes ranging from a writer's belief in a more perfect democracy to descriptions of an authoritarian leader's cruel and brutal actions. Each essay, poem, speech, and story forms a map to the nowhere lands: places that begin in the author's imagination but become real as readers discover worlds simultaneously foreign and familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNowhere Lands\u003c\/i\u003e includes diverse pieces from authors of different centuries, cultures, and worldviews. From Alabama Governor George Wallace's 1963 inaugural address, which declared \"segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,\" to Ta-Nehisi Coates's 2019 Congressional testimony, where he described the American sense of being \"bound to a collective enterprise that extends beyond our individual and personal reach,\" this book presents societies pushed to extremes. The works in this anthology use topics such as race, gender, and economics to evaluate societal organization through the fantastical and the mundane. In this moment of seismic cultural and political change, \u003ci\u003eNowhere Lands\u003c\/i\u003e provides a meaningful opportunity to reflect on each author's assertions about our future. In turn, readers are encouraged, through guided questions and contextual footnotes, to consider how the worlds described in the anthology mirror the world outside their windows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis anthology includes: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA comprehensive table of contents with works from across the globe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContextual introductions to each work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKey vocabulary terms for student readers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn expansive \"For further reading\" section for genre devotees\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEditorial footnotes explaining outdated language, context, or obscure references\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karl Meiner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1955499357\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781955499354\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Chemeketa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Karl Meiner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46974664081663,"sku":"9781955499354","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_502c15c6-ca13-483e-a275-c72ba587d7fa.jpg?v=1750875700","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nowhere-lands-karl-meiner-9781955499354","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}