Analyzing speculative fiction and science fiction, this book explores a range of political and social theoretical concerns for the twenty-first century, including post-humanism, resistance, agency, political community making, and ethics and politics...
mehr
Analyzing speculative fiction and science fiction, this book explores a range of political and social theoretical concerns for the twenty-first century, including post-humanism, resistance, agency, political community making, and ethics and politics during the Anthropocene. Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Collapse and Rebuilding -- 1 Dystopia, Apocalypse, and Other Things to Look Forward To -- 2 Mirror, Mirror -- 3 Beginning Again -- Part II: Resistance and Survival -- 4 "We Survived You" -- 5 Wakanda Forever -- 6 Drowning Politics -- Part III: Reconstructing Our World: Space and Place -- 7 The Ambiguities of Critical Desire -- 8 Politicizing Cities in China Miéville's Speculative Fiction -- 9 Stranger than Fiction -- Part IV: Reconstructing Ourselves: Identity and Agency -- 10 A Future Is Female -- 11 Finding Liberation and Futurity in the Sentient Spaceships of Leckie, Chambers, and Okorafor -- 12 What Do We Lose When We Become Posthuman? -- Index -- About the Contributors.
