Gonzaga's Dr. Maucione argues literary tex ts that imagine anti- or post-capitalist spaces are important not only in preparing readers to enter them\, but in making them possible. She juxtapo ses near-future-set novels\, Mohsin Hamid&rsquo\;s Exit West and Louise Erdrich&rsquo\;s The Future Home of the Living God\, in or der to explore the sociopolitical significance of the anti-capitalist futu res they manifest. No need to read the books ahead of time!
\nErdric h is an Indigenous woman writer\, whose novel focuses on women as targets of exploitation and commoditization as well as the sources of hope for a b etter future\, while Hamid&rsquo\;s novel is feminist in that it imagines a female protagonist who is better equipped to embrace change and the futu re itself because as a woman in a patriarchal society\, she is not attache d to the status quo in the ways that her male counterpart is.
\nJess ica Maucione\, Ph.D.\, is \;Professor of English and Women's &\; Ge nder Studies and Powers Chair of the Humanities at Gonzaga University.
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