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Shockwaves of Possibility

Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia

Baccolini, Raffaella / Fischer, Joachim / Griffin, Michael / Moylan, Tom
Erschienen am 16.09.2014
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ISBN/EAN: 9783034307413
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 312
Format (T/L/B): 22.0 x 15.0 cm

Beschreibung

This book explores the deep utopianism of one of the most significant modern cultural practices: science fiction. It contends that utopianism is not simply a motif in science fiction – alongside technology, time travel, alien encounters, conspiracies, alternate histories or the post-apocalypse – but is fundamental to the genre's narrative dynamics.

Autorenportrait

Phillip E. Wegner is the Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida. He is the author of ; ; and .

Rezension

«[...] this is an important study that will shape our conversations about science fiction and form for years to come, one that irrefutably demonstrates the critical importance of this genre to the literature of social justice.» (American Literary History, ALH Online Review Series XIII) Read the full review here

Inhalt

Contents: The Modernisms of Science Fiction: Toward a Periodizing History – If Everything Means Something Else: Technology, Allegory, and Events in and – After the End of the World: Pseudo-Apocalypse and Universal History in and – Recognizing the Patterns – Part Two: Possible Worlds – The Beat Cops of History: Or, The Paranoid Style in American Intellectual Politics – Popular Dystopias in an Era of Global War – Alan Moore, «Secondary Literacy», and the Modernism of the Graphic Novel – Ken MacLeod’s Permanent Revolution: Utopian Possible Worlds, History, and the in the «Fall Revolution» – Alternate Histories, Periodization, and the Geopolitical Aesthetics of Ken MacLeod and Iain M. Banks – Learning to Live in History: Alternate Historicities and the 1990s in – «An Unfinished Project that was Also a Missed Opportunity»: Utopia and Alternate History in Hayao Miyazaki’s . Inhaltsverzeichnis

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