Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism [electronic resource] : Beyond the Golden Rule /
Gomel, E.author.
Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism offers a typology of alien encounters and addresses a range of texts including classic novels of alien encounter by H.G. Wells and Robert Heinlein; recent blockbusters by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler and Sheri Tepper; and experimental science fiction by Peter Watts and Housuke Nojiri.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Why Do We Need Aliens?; Part I: Confrontation; 1 ""The Force that Gives us Meaning"": Alien Invasion and Search for Redemption; 2 Idylls of the Same: Soviet SF, Cosmic Humanism, and Escape from History; Part II: Assimilation; 3 The Contagion of Posthumanity: Alien Infestation and the Paradox of Subjectivity; 4 Human Skins, Alien Masks: Allegories of Postcolonial Guilt; Part III: Transformation; 5 The Human Trinity: What Makes Us Other?; 6 Stanislaw Lem and the Holocaust of Humanism; Postscript; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism offers a typology of alien encounters and addresses a range of texts including classic novels of alien encounter by H.G. Wells and Robert Heinlein; recent blockbusters by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler and Sheri Tepper; and experimental science fiction by Peter Watts and Housuke Nojiri.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Fiction.
America-Literatures.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Fiction.
North American Literature.