Globalization, Utopia and Postcolonial Science Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : New Maps of Hope / / by E. Smith
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Smith E
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| Titolo: |
Globalization, Utopia and Postcolonial Science Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : New Maps of Hope / / by E. Smith
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2012. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (253 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 809.38762 |
| Soggetto topico: | Literature, Modern—20th century |
| Literature | |
| Literature—Philosophy | |
| Oriental literature | |
| Fiction | |
| Globalization | |
| Twentieth-Century Literature | |
| Postcolonial/World Literature | |
| Literary Theory | |
| Asian Literature | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Developing countries Literatures |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Globalization, Utopia and Postcolonial Science Fiction |
| ISBN: | 1-283-86720-6 |
| 1-137-28357-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910786583603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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