Alterity and Capitalism in Speculative Fiction Estranging Contemporary History /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Vergara, Tomás (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:	IX, 206 p. text
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:	1st ed. 2023.
Subjects:	Literature > Philosophy. Literature, Modern > 20th century. Literature, Modern > 21st century. Culture > Study and teaching. Literary form. Literary Theory. Contemporary Literature. Cultural Studies. Literary Genre.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39924-4
Format:	Electronic Book

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.

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