Alterity and Capitalism in Speculative Fiction : Estranging Contemporary History

• Autore: Vergara Tomás
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (210 pages)
• Disciplina: 809.3876
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Anamorphic Estrangement -- Gothic Marxism: Historical Materialism and the Fantastic -- The Critique of Suvin's SF Theory -- Mark Bould's Paranoid Theory of Fantasy: Ontology as Hermeneutics -- Anamorphic Estrangement -- Estrangement and Historicity: What Can We Do with It? -- Overview of the Book -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Marxism as Narrative World-Building Method: New Weird Fiction and Capitalist Crisis in China Miéville's Bas-Lag Trilogy -- Weird Metaphors: A Fantastic Interrogation of History -- Marxism as Narrative World-Building Method -- Bas-Lag and Marx's Theory of Crisis: The Possibility of the Impossible -- Bas-Lag's Abcanny Universe: Benjamin's Allegory -- Bas-Lag's Industrial Capitalism: A Fantastic Documentation of Capitalist Crises -- Remaking: Radical Social Labour Exploitation -- The Plague of Nightmares: Weird Approximations to Capital -- Crisis as Ontology: The Possibility of the Impossible -- The Weaver: A Revolutionary Conception of Crisis -- Renovating the Fantasy of Revolution -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: The Afterlives of Slavery: Spectres of the Antebellum in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Rivers Solomon's Sorrowland -- The Underground Railroad: A Collage of Institutional Racism -- The Political Economy of Racism -- Scenes from Darkest Africa -- Spaghetti Western -- Rivers Solomon's Sorrowland -- Sorrowland: Black Liberation? -- Sorrowland: The Hauntings of Black History -- Sorrowland: Sympoiesis and Black Liberation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Challenging Cultural Studies Through Dystopia: Catatonic Cultural Dominant in Noon's Falling Out of Cars and McCormack's Notes from a Coma -- Catatonia and/or Schizophrenia: A Dynamic Cultural Dominant -- Dystopia as a Metaphor for the Present. ; Falling Out of Cars: Catatonic Stasis -- Falling Out of Cars: Catatonic Écriture and Losing the Traces of the World -- Falling Out of Cars: Catatonic Capitalism -- Notes from a Coma: Comatose Future and Catatonic Zeitgeist -- Notes from a Coma: Coma and Exhaustion -- The Coma Zeitgeist: Towards a Catatonic Future -- Notes from a Coma: Post-Apocalyptic Mode of Production -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Extrapolation and Social Reproduction: Anne Charnock's Dreams Before the Start of Time and Bina Shah's Before She Sleeps -- Plausibility as Rhetorical Effect: Towards a Diachronic View of Extrapolation -- Speculative Fiction and Socialist Feminism: Social Reproduction -- Anne Charnock's Dreams Before the Start of Time -- Dreams Before the Start of Time: Beyond the Nuclear Family -- Dreams Before the Start of Time: Capitalist Eugenics and Class Difference -- Before the Start of Time: Integrating Gender and Class Struggles -- Bina Shah's Before She Sleeps -- Before She Sleeps: Integrative World-Building -- Before She Sleeps: Local and Universal Extrapolation -- Before She Sleeps: The Underground Resistance -- Before She Sleeps: The Trajectory of Feminist Movements -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: New Horizons for a Marxist Theory of Speculative Fiction -- Future Research -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Alterity and Capitalism in Speculative Fiction
• ISBN: 3-031-39924-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910746952003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II