Environments in science fiction
Subtitle: essays on alternative spaces
By: edited by Susan M. Bernardo
Series: Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy -- 44; Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy -- 44.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780786475797
Subjects: Ecocriticism; Science fiction; Dystopias in literature; Future, The, in literature; History and criticism
Description: "This book focuses especially on science fiction that includes depictions of the future. There are ecocritical texts that deal with space/place and science fiction criticism that deals with dystopias but there is no other collection that focuses on the intersection of the two"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Heterotopian possibilities in science fictions by Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett, Samuel Delany and Ursula K. Le Guin / Lauren J. Lacey; title: Acceptance of the marginalized in Marge Piercy's He, She, It and Melissa Scott's Trouble and her friends / Melanie A. Marotta; title: Anathem's flows of power : state space and nomadology on a cloistered planet / Jonathan P. Lewis; title: Karel Čapek's War with the newts : deterritorializing land and language / Adam Lawrence; title: Mary Shelley's literary laboratory : Frankenstein and the emergence of the modern laboratory in nineteenth-century Europe / Matthew Hadley; title: Ectopian London : Morris's Geography of conservation / Margaret S. Kennedy; title: Underworlds of despair and hope in Cormac McCarthy's The road / Justin T. Noetzel; title: The silence of the subaltern : the rejection of history and language in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta chromosome / Shayani Bhattacharya; title: A case of terraphilia : longing for place and community in Philip K. Dick's Do androids dream of electric sheep? / Susan M. Bernardo; title: Discursive transgressions and ideological negotiations : from Orwell's 1984 to Butler's Parable of the sower / Keith Elphick.