Globalization, utopia and postcolonial science fiction : new maps of hope /

"Globalization, Utopia, and Postcolonial Science Fiction: New Maps of Hope" explores the aesthetic and historical conditions that inform the recent convergence of the seemingly incommensurable domains of the postcolonial Third World and the genre of SF, particularly as expressed in the rec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Eric D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Temas:
Science fiction > History and criticism.
Literature and globalization.
Utopias in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Littérature et mondialisation.
Utopies dans la littérature.
Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
utopian literature.
Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Science Fiction & Fantasy.
Literature.
Literature and globalization
Postcolonialism in literature
Science fiction
Utopias in literature
Science-Fiction
Postkoloniale Literatur
Utopie
Globalisierung
Science fiction > historia.
Postkolonialism i litteraturen.
Litteratur och globalisering.
Litteratur och politik.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Desire Called Postcolonial Science Fiction
  • "Fictions Where a Man Could Live': Worldlessness Against the Void in Salman Rushdie's "Grimus"
  • 'The Only Way Out is Through': Spaces of Narrative and the Narrative of Space in Nalo Hopkinson's "Midnight Robber"
  • There's No Splace Like Home: Domesticity, Difference, and the 'Long Space' of Short Fiction in Vandana Singh's "The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet"
  • Claiming the Futures That Are, or, The Cunning of History in Amitav Ghosh's "The Calcutta Chromosome" and Manjula Padmanabhan's "Gandhi-Toxin"
  • Mob Zombies, Alien Nations, and Cities of the Undead: Monstrous Subjects and the Postmillennial Nomos in "I am Legend " and " District 9"
  • Third World Punks, or, Watch Out for the Worlds Behind You
  • Conclusion: Reimagining the Material.

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