Past Futures of Threatened Orders. Alternative racial orders in speculative fictions and realities in the U.S. (G06)

• Subject Area: European and American Literary and Cultural Studies
• Term: from 2011 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 170320015

In the third funding period, Project G06 will continue to focus on the racial order in the U.S. by looking at imagined alternative orders in fiction and utopian communities. These visions testify to the resistance to the existing order that can inform future mobilization and threat; they also fuel continuing attempts of re-ordering by keeping up the promise of a better order.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 923: Threatened Orders
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Astrid Franke; Dr. Nicole Hirschfelder, since 7/2019