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Joshua Barnes's Gerania: A Diminutive Utopia of Hospitality
Focusing on the broadly conceived principle of hospitality, the essay offers an analysis of Joshua Barnes's Gerania, a highly original but little-studied late seventeenth-century utopia set in India and featuring the Pygmies as utopians and Homer as their lawgiver. It is argued that Barnes's utopia offers a radical alternative to the policy of closure and isolation adopted in early modern utopian commonwealths. Its peculiar construction results in the unique openness of the narrator's discourse to an alien word and of the ideal world to outsiders, their outlandish beliefs, rules and artifacts.
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Secret of Owls
Above our heads, the evening sky is the same delicate blush pink as a rose petal, but the air bites into exposed skin with icy fangs, and the conifer branches appear black against the snow. There is nothing gentle, sensual, or romantic about this hike. Tonight, the wilds will be cold and unforgiving. We know this, going in, but in an academic way.
An hour along the trail, we come to know it in a visceral way, too. We know it in the same way a deer knows to avoid a hungry cougar. We feel it instinctually in the marrow
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