LEADER 04184nam 22005895 450 001 9910983355603321 005 20251116222333.0 010 $a9783031804304 010 $a3031804309 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-80430-4 035 $a(CKB)37702851400041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31919669 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31919669 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-80430-4 035 $a(OCoLC)1503846669 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937702851400041 100 $a20250224d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCulture?s Futures $eScience Fiction, Form and the Problem of Culture /$fby Eric Aronoff 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (323 pages) 225 0 $aLiterature, Cultural and Media Studies 311 08$a9783031804298 311 08$a3031804295 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction: Science Fiction, Anthropology and the Problem of Culture -- Chapter 2: Aliens, Anthropologists, and American Indians: Ray Bradbury?s The Martian Chronicles, Modernist Anthropology and the Idea of Culture -- Chapter 3: Well-Wrought Cultures and Carrier Bags: Forms of Culture in Ursula K. Le Guin?s The Left Hand of Darkness and Always Coming Home -- Chapter 4: Captivity, Conversion, Culture: Octavia E. Butler?s Genre-tic Engineering of Ethnography and Science Fiction in the Xenogenesis Trilogy -- Chapter 5: Resisting Culture: Culture and/as Sovereignty in Indigenous Futurisms -- Chapter 6: Coda: Culture?s Futures. 330 $a?Culture?s Futures: Science Fiction, Form and the Problem of Culture is a brilliant work of interdisciplinary scholarship. Aronoff addresses a gap in scholarship on science fiction and anthropology by illustrating the complex ways in which both develop their poetics in relation to one another. The book promises to become the standard reference for future scholars exploring the development of social science fiction after 1945.? ?Leif Sorensen, Colorado State University, United States This book argues that science fiction has been a key participant, along with anthropology and literary theory, in the interdisciplinary debates over ?culture? and narrative form from the modernist period to the present. Both science fiction and the anthropological ethnography, in their modernist forms and post-modern/postcolonial reinventions, are intertwined technologies for constructing ?culture? and difference through narrative worldbuilding. This book traces the ways SF authors ? including Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Octavia E. Butler, as well as Indigenous futurists Craig Strete, Celu Amberstone, Rebecca Roanhorse and Cherie Dimaline ? have deployed, interrogated and revised these models of ?culture,? representation and power to imagine new futures. Eric Aronoff is an Associate Professor of Humanities in the Residential College of Arts and Humanitiesat Michigan State University, USA. His areas of expertise are modernist American literature and criticism, anthropology and literature, and theories of culture, as well as science fiction. Eric also has strong research interests in literature and the environment. His work has appeared in journals such as MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Genre and ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance. Eric?s first book, Composing Cultures: Modernism, American Literary Studies and the Problem of Culture was published in 2013. 606 $aLiterary form 606 $aAnthropology 606 $aEthnology 606 $aLiterary Genre 606 $aAnthropology 606 $aEthnography 615 0$aLiterary form. 615 0$aAnthropology. 615 0$aEthnology. 615 14$aLiterary Genre. 615 24$aAnthropology. 615 24$aEthnography. 676 $a813.0876209 700 $aAronoff$b Eric$01785313 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910983355603321 996 $aCulture's Futures$94316883 997 $aUNINA