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Gothic science fiction 1980-2010 /

These essays explore questions of genre, medical science gender, biopower and capitalism, demonstrating the ways in which Gothic science fiction texts stage contemporary concerns around power, anxiety, resistance and capital.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wasson, Sara, Alder, Emily
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.
Colección:Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 41.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Adam Roberts
  • In the zone: topologies of genre weirdness / Roger Luckhurst
  • Zombie death drive: between gothic and science fiction / Fred Botting
  • 'Death is irrelevant': gothic science fiction and the biopolitics of empire / Aris Mousoutzanis
  • 'A butcher's shop where the meat still moved': gothic doubles, organ harvesting and human cloning / Sara Wasson
  • Guillermo del Toro's Cronos, or the pleasures of impurity / Laurence Davies
  • Infected with life: neo-supernaturalism and the gothic zombie / Gwyneth Peaty
  • Ruined skin: gothic genetics and human identity in Stephen Donaldson's Gap cycle / Emily Alder
  • The superheated, superdense prose of David Conway: gender and subjectivity beyond The starry wisdom / Mark P. Williams
  • Spatialized ontologies: Toni Morrison's science fiction traces in gothic spaces / Jerrilyn McGregory
  • The gothic punk milieu in popular narrative fictions / Nickianne Moody
  • Gothic science fiction in the steampunk graphic novel: The league of extraordinary gentlemen / Laura Hilton.