04194nam 22008535 450 991082711310332120200918172754.01-283-86720-61-137-28357-210.1057/9781137283573(CKB)2670000000299427(EBL)1094929(OCoLC)819423206(SSID)ssj0000811014(PQKBManifestationID)12358867(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000811014(PQKBWorkID)10834379(PQKB)10689159(SSID)ssj0001658537(PQKBManifestationID)16440530(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001658537(PQKBWorkID)14988679(PQKB)10984937(DE-He213)978-1-137-28357-3(MiAaPQ)EBC1094929(EXLCZ)99267000000029942720151130d2012 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGlobalization, Utopia and Postcolonial Science Fiction[electronic resource] New Maps of Hope /by E. Smith1st ed. 2012.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2012.1 online resource (253 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-34647-0 0-230-35447-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Planet4 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; IndexThis 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.Literature, Modern—20th centuryLiterature   Literature—PhilosophyOriental literatureFictionGlobalizationTwentieth-Century Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000Postcolonial/World Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/838000Literary Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/812000Asian Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/831000Fictionhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/825000Globalizationhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/912030Developing countriesLiteraturesLiterature, Modern—20th century.Literature   .Literature—Philosophy.Oriental literature.Fiction.Globalization.Twentieth-Century Literature.Postcolonial/World Literature.Literary Theory.Asian Literature.Fiction.Globalization.809.38762Smith Eauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut342250BOOK9910827113103321Globalization, Utopia and Postcolonial Science Fiction3918632UNINA