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UNINA9910827113103321 |
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Autore |
Smith Eric D |
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Titolo |
Globalization, utopia, and postcolonial science fiction : new maps of hope / / Eric D. Smith |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-86720-6 |
1-137-28357-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2012.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (253 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Science fiction - History and criticism |
Literature and globalization |
Utopias in literature |
Postcolonialism in literature |
Developing countries Literatures |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Desire Called Postcolonial Science Fiction; 1 ""Fictions Where a Man Could Live"": Worldlessness Against the Void in Salman Rushdie's Grimus; 2 ""The Only Way Out is Through"": Spaces of Narrative and the Narrative of Space in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber; 3 There's No Splace Like Home: Domesticity, Difference, and the ""Long Space"" of Short Fiction in Vandana Singh's The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet |
4 Claiming the Futures That Are, or, The Cunning of History in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome and Manjula Padmanabhan's ""Gandhi-Toxin""5 Mob Zombies, Alien Nations, and Cities of the Undead: Monstrous Subjects and the Post-Millennial Nomos in I am Legend and District 9; 6 Third-World Punks, or, Watch Out for the Worlds Behind You; Conclusion: Reimagining the Material; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This study considers the recent surge of science fiction narratives from the postcolonial Third World as a utopian response to the spatial, political, and representational dilemmas that attend globalization. |
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