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Science fiction, critical frontiers
Abstract
Science fiction has recently been identified as providing the narrative paradigm for postmodernity. This volume of essays combines theoretical discussions of the nature of science fiction, with specific studies of utopian and dystopian narratives. Alongside of this, the essays here address feminist and African American issues, the envisioning of radical alternative realities and futures, cyborgs, cyberpunk and cyber-space, age and aging, hybridity and monstrosity, and contemporary society and the postmodern condition.
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metaphor, myth or prophecy?
pp.23-34
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62832-2_2the historical dialogue between science fiction and utopia
pp.35-47
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62832-2_3on science fiction, totality and agency in the 1990s
pp.48-65
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62832-2_4pp.69-84
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62832-2_5racial and sexual narratives in Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren
pp.85-99
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62832-2_6pp.100-115
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62832-2_7the virtual frontier and us cyberculture
pp.116-126
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62832-2_8Gudrun Pausewang's anti-nuclear novels
pp.127-139
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62832-2_9C. L. Moore's "No woman born"
pp.140-153
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62832-2_10reproduction, embodiment and feminist science in Marge Piercy's science fiction
pp.154-168
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62832-2_11science fiction alternatives to the patriarchy — Sheri Tepper's The gate to women's country and Orson Scott Card's Homecoming series
pp.169-192
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62832-2_12Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2000
Pages: 219
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-62832-2
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-62834-6
ISBN (digital): 978-1-349-62832-2
Full citation:
Sayer Karen, Moore John (2000) Science fiction, critical frontiers. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.