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The Postnational Fantasy: Essays on Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction
| Author: | Jason W. Ellis Swaralipi Nandi Masood Ashraf Raja |
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McFarland & Company, 2011 |
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| Book Type: | Non-Fiction |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
In twelve critical and interdisciplinary essays, this text examines the relationship between the fantastic in novels, movies and video games and real-world debates about nationalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism. Topics covered include science fiction and postcolonialism, issues of ethnicity, nation and transnational discourse. Altogether, these essays chart a new discursive space, where postcolonial theory and science fiction and fantasy studies work cooperatively to expand our understanding of the fantastic, while simultaneously expanding the scope of postcolonial discussions.
Contents:
- 1 - Foreword (The Postnational Fantasy: Essays on Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction) - essay by Donald M. Hassler
- 5 - Introduction (The Postnational Fantasy: Essays on Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction) - essay by Swaralipi Nandi and Masood Ashraf Raja
- 17 - Science Fiction as Experimental Ground for Issues of the Postcolonial Novel - essay by Michele Braun
- 30 - Truth Is Stranger: The Postnational "Aliens" of Biofiction - essay by Karen Cardozo and Banu Subramaniam
- 46 - Forms of Compromise: The Interaction of Humanity, Technology and Landscape in Ken MacLeod's Night Sessions - essay by Adam Frisch
- 56 - The Language of Postnationality: Cultural Identity via Science Fictional Trajectories - essay by Chris Pak
- 73 - The "Popular" Science: Bollywood's Take on Science Fiction and the Discourse of Nations - essay by Swaralipi Nandi
- 88 - Postcolonial Ethics and Identity in Kirinyaga - essay by Jenn Brandt
- 100 - The Frontier Myth and Racial Politics - essay by Angel Mateos-Aparicio Martin-Albo
- 125 - Dystopia and the Postcolonial Nation - essay by Suparno Banderjee
- 141 - Body Speaks: Communication and the Limits of Nationalism in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy - essay by Katherine R. Broad
- 156 - Engineering a Comopolitan Future: Race, Nation, and World of Warcraft - essay by Jason W. Ellis
- 174 - When "Nation" Stops Making Sense: Mexico and Giorgio Agamben's "State of Exception" in Children of Men - essay by Stacy Schmitt Rusnak
- 188 - Fantastic Language/Political Reporting: The Postcolonial Science Fiction Illocutionary Force Is with Us - essay by Marleen S. Barr
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