Alterity and Capitalism in Speculative Fiction Estranging Contemporary History /

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Autor Principal: Vergara, Tomás (Author)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:IX, 206 p.
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Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edición:1st ed. 2023.
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Acceso en liña:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39924-4
Formato: Electrónico Libro
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Anamorphic Estrangement
  • Chapter 2: Marxism as Narrative World-Building Method: New Weird Fiction and Capitalist Crisis in China Miéville’s Bas-Lag Trilogy
  • Chapter 3: The Afterlives of Slavery: Spectres of the Antebellum in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland
  • Chapter 4: Challenging Cultural Studies Through Dystopia: Catatonic Cultural Dominant in Noon’s Falling Out of Cars and McCormack’s Notes from a Coma
  • Chapter 5: Extrapolation and Social Reproduction: Anne Charnock’s Dreams Before the Start of Time and Bina Shah’s Before She Sleep
  • Chapter 6: Conclusion: New Horizons for a Marxist Theory of Speculative Fiction.