LEADER 04976nam 22008055 450 001 9910633937303321 005 20251009103011.0 010 $a9783031182617 010 $a3031182618 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-18261-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7148664 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7148664 035 $a(CKB)25504443100041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-18261-7 035 $a(BIP)085591851 035 $a(OCoLC)1355220492 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925504443100041 100 $a20221128d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAnn Leckie?s "Ancillary Justice" $eA Critical Companion /$fby David M. Higgins 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (100 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon,$x2662-8570 311 08$aPrint version: Higgins, David M. Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031182600 327 $a1.Introduction -- 2.?She Was Probably Male? Gender and Embodiment -- 3. ?Luxury Always Comes at Someone Else?s Expense? The Economics of Empire -- 4.?You Have to be Human to be Radchaai? Race, Citizenship, and Imperial Personhood -- 5.?Save it for When it will Make a Difference? Cynical Reason, Agency, and the Politics of Revolution -- 6.Conclusion: Mercy, or the Sword? 330 $a"From racial capitalism and neo-imperialism to gender expression and revolutionary agency, Higgins writes with nuance and generosity to all potential readers about the real-world conditions that lie just under the surface of Leckie's far-future space opera. A big-hearted masterwork of accessible criticism, this is a book that you will want to share with students and colleagues alike." ?Rebekah Sheldon, Associate Professor of English, Indiana University, Bloomington, and author of The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe (2016) "David Higgins gives us a masterful analysis of Ancillary Justice, the first novel in Leckie's trilogy, deftly tracing the book's major themes, together with its unusual use of language, and showing how the novel helps us think about the most urgent concerns of our present moment." ?Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University. This book argues that Ann Leckie?s novel Ancillary Justice offers a devastating rebuke to the political, social, cultural, and economic injustices of American imperialism in the post 9/11 era. Following an introductory overview, the study offers four chapters that examine key themes central to the novel: gender, imperial economics, race, and revolutionary agency. Ancillary Justice?s exploration of these four themes, and the way it reveals how these issues are all fundamentally entangled with the problem of contemporary imperial power, warrants its status as a canonical work of science fiction for the twenty-first century. The book concludes with a brief interview with Leckie herself touching on each of the topics examined during the preceding chapters. David M. Higgins is a Senior Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and he is the Chair of the English Department at Inver Hills College in Minnesota, where he teaches classes on science fiction, graphic novels, American literature, and composition. He is the author of Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood, which won the 2021 Science Fiction Research Association Book Award. . 410 0$aPalgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon,$x2662-8570 606 $aFiction 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aFeminism and literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aPopular culture 606 $aSex 606 $aRace 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aFeminist Literary Theory 606 $aContemporary Literature 606 $aPopular Culture 606 $aGender Studies 606 $aRace and Ethnicity Studies 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aFeminism and literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aPopular culture. 615 0$aSex. 615 0$aRace. 615 14$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aFeminist Literary Theory. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aPopular Culture. 615 24$aGender Studies. 615 24$aRace and Ethnicity Studies. 676 $a809.3 676 $a813.6 700 $aHiggins$b D. M$01859644 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910633937303321 996 $aAnn Leckie?s "Ancillary Justice"$94463714 997 $aUNINA