Alterity and Capitalism in Speculative Fiction: Estranging Contemporary History 3031399234, 9783031399237

Speculative fiction has been traditionally studied in Marxist literary criticism, following Darko Suvin’s paradigmatic m

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Alterity and Capitalism in Speculative Fiction: Estranging Contemporary History
3031399234, 9783031399237

Speculative fiction has been traditionally studied in Marxist literary criticism, following Darko Suvin’s paradigmatic m

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Focusing on the contemporary period, this book brings together critical age studies and contemporary science fiction to

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Why did Kurt Vonnegut shun being labeled a writer of science fiction (SF)? How did Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin

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Imagines the end of anthropocentrism through contemporary science fiction and speculative realism A human-centred appro

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What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas

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Winner, 2019 Science Fiction & Technoculture Studies Book Prize Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plant

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"Every other is truly other, but no other is wholly other." This is the claim that Aspects of Alterity defends

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This collection of essays explores the interfaces between new information technologies and their impact on contemporary

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The discussions of Church in this discerning study indicate precisely how an author's concept of time influences th

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Traverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race,

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