Bringing together an historian of political thought and a literary scholar, this book offers a historically wide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated discussion of utopia--one of the most vexed concepts in the humanities and social sciences as well as a mode of imagining that continues to inspire an extraordinary range of cultural productions.

Bringing together an historian of political thought and a literary scholar, this book offers a historically wide-ranging and theoretically sophisticated discussion of utopia--one of the most vexed concepts in the humanities and social sciences as well as a mode of imagining that continues to inspire an extraordinary range of cultural productions.

Vasco da Gama and His Successors (1970) looks at a range of Portuguese explorers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the most important being Vasco da Gama, whose first voyage to India ushered in a period of European conquest and empire, and established direct and permanent contact between Europe and the Far East.

Veiled Superheroes: Islam, Feminism, and Popular Culture focuses on female Muslim superheroes in graphic narratives such as the comic Ms. Marvel, the animated television series Burka Avenger, and the webcomic Qahera.

This book offers new insights into the debates of vernacularity, language ideologies, and the decolonial turn. It identifies ‘vernacular encounters’ as nuanced interactions of languages that are often termed as ‘local’ with culture and power. It will be useful to researchers of language, linguistics, and literary and cultural studies.