Building bridges between cultures in Ian McDonald's science fiction / by Jerome Winter.
| Author/creator | Winter, Jerome author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | 235 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: The Genesis of Ian McDonald's Magical Science-Fictionalism -- 1. A Magic-SF Mission to Mars: The Inception of the Global Imaginary in "The Catherine Wheel (Our Lady of Tharsis)", Desolation Road, and Ares Express -- 2. The Mygmus, Alien-Loving Frooks, and the Warriors of Destiny: Competing Globalisms and Sectarian Cosmopolitics in McDonald's Irish Trilogy -- 3. "Post-humanity's Playground": The Chaga Saga, Afrofuturist Magic Realism, and Global Science Fiction -- 4. Rogue Aeais, Krishna Cops, and the Global Subaltern in River of Gods and Cyberabad Days -- 5. The Quantum Multiverse Meets the Global Marketplace: Brasyl and the Everness Series -- 6. "Istanbul, Queen of Cities": Neoliberal Capitalism and Postcolonial Nationalism in Ian McDonald's The Dervish House -- 7. "The Dark Grinning Skull of Margaret Thatcher": The Reimagining of Radical Anarcho-Capitalist Ideology in McDonald's Luna Trilogy -- 8. Hopeland: Constellations of Critically Utopian Romance in the Global Anthropocene. |
| Abstract | "Ian McDonald is a celebrated writer within the science-fiction community whose rich and urgent body of works span over a quarter of a century. The author claims McDonald's work functions as vital, troubling allegories, which both refuse the Orientalist euphemizing of colonial atrocities, while still at the same time envisioning a transformative global alterity, seeking an ethical and political embrace of systematically silenced subaltern voices in the neoliberal world-system. The book follows McDonald as the globe-trotting writer travels from Ireland to Kenya, to India, to Brazil, to Turkey, to a proliferating multiverse and beyond. Along the way, the author analyzes McDonald's science fiction as a salient contribution to the flourishing cosmopolitan literature of postcolonial developing nations at the crossroads of the global imaginary."--Cover page 4. |
| Abstract | "The book argues that Ian McDonald's globalized science fiction functions as a complex, hybrid fusion of magic realism and SF literature and culture"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Winter, Jerome Building bridges between cultures in Ian McDonald's science fiction New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025 9781978766969 |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781978766969 |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Critiques littéraires. |
| LCCN | 2025013017 |
| ISBN | 9781666956801 |
| ISBN | 1666956805 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781666956825 paperback |
| ISBN | 1666956821 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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