Environments in Science Fiction : Essays on Alternative Spaces / edited by Susan M. Bernardo.

Other author Bernardo, Susan M., editor.
Format Book
PublicationJefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
Descriptionx, 195 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCritical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy ; 44
Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy 44. ^A600474
Contents Heterotopian possibilities in science fictions by Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett, Samuel Delany and Ursula K. Le Guin / Lauren J. Lacey -- Acceptance of the marginalized in Marge Piercy's He, She, It and Melissa Scott's Trouble and her friends / Melanie A. Marotta -- Anathem's flows of power : state space and nomadology on a cloistered planet / Jonathan P. Lewis -- Karel Čapek's War with the newts : deterritorializing land and language / Adam Lawrence -- Mary Shelley's literary laboratory : Frankenstein and the emergence of the modern laboratory in nineteenth-century Europe / Matthew Hadley -- Ectopian London : Morris's Geography of conservation / Margaret S. Kennedy -- Underworlds of despair and hope in Cormac McCarthy's The road / Justin T. Noetzel -- The silence of the subaltern : the rejection of history and language in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta chromosome / Shayani Bhattacharya -- A case of terraphilia : longing for place and community in Philip K. Dick's Do androids dream of electric sheep? / Susan M. Bernardo -- Discursive transgressions and ideological negotiations : from Orwell's 1984 to Butler's Parable of the sower / Keith Elphick.
Abstract "This book focuses especially on science fiction that includes depictions of the future. There are ecocritical texts that deal with space/place and science fiction criticism that deals with dystopias but there is no other collection that focuses on the intersection of the two"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2014003861
ISBN9780786475797 (softcover : alk. paper)
ISBN078647579X (softcover : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40023495004

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