Alterity and Capitalism in Speculative Fiction Estranging Contemporary History
His research interests are focused on speculative fiction, Marxist literary criticism and the environmental humanities. This interest rangesfrom early forms of science fiction and the Gothic in Victorian literature to the dystopian imaginaries of cyberpunk in Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, and t...
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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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