Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian ImaginationTom Moylan, Raffaella Baccolini Psychology Press, 2003 - 264 páginas First published in 2003. With essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Dark Horizons focuses on the development of critical dystopia in science fiction at the end of the twentieth century. In these narratives of places more terrible than even the reality produced by the neo-conservative backlash of the 1980s and the neoliberal hegemony of the 1990s, utopian horizons stubbornly anticipate a different and more just world. The top-notch team of contributors explores this development in a variety of ways: by looking at questions of form, politics, the politics of form, and the form of politics. In a broader context, the essays connect their textual and theoretical analyses with historical developments such as September 11th, the rise and downturn of the global economy, and the growth of anti-capitalist movements. |
Contenido
Genre Blending and the Critical Dystopia | 29 |
Pat Cadigans Networks | 69 |
Posthuman Bodies and Agency in Octavia Butlers | 91 |
Unmasking the Real? Critique and Utopia in Recent SF Films | 155 |
Theses on Dystopia 2001 | 187 |
Slavery and Its Others | 203 |
Conclusion Critical Dystopia and Possibilities | 233 |
Notes on Contributors | 251 |
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Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination Tom Moylan,Raffaella Baccolini Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination Tom Moylan,Raffaella Baccolini Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination Tom Moylan,Raffaella Baccolini Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
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