International Journal of English Literature and Culture

Vol. 11(1), pp. 18-26, January 2023

 ISSN: 2360-7831

https://doi.org/10.14662/ijelc2022310

 

Review

 

Abstract

 

This paper intends to study the notion of Utopia in Stephenie Meyer`s The Host within David Harvey`s framework. Generally, utopias are spaces of hope, which give the disillusioned and disintegrated readers new hope by relocating them to new spaces with novel experiences. Harvey emphasizes the spatial dimension of utopia and the utopias of the process which is possible in the age of Globalization. Harvey emphasizes the fact that the present moment is witness to a re-articulation on a new spatial scale of the contradictory logics of capitalist modernization. The Host has got attention for its imaginary spaces set in an apocalyptic future which has been associated mostly with spaces of utopia rather than dystopias assumed for the future of the planet earth. So, this paper intends to clarify how the novel engages in spaces of utopia and how the writer represents diverse strange worlds alien to a human being at the same time while highlighting human life and earth, projecting hope to such beings.

 

Keywords: Apocalyptic Utopia, Globalization, Spaces of hope, Utopianism.  

 

Cite This Article As: Ghayour, A.K (2023). Spaces of Hope: Reconceptualizing Utopia in Stephenie Meyer`s The Host: A Harveyian Reading. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 11(1): 18-26