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基本説明
Bringing together distinguished contrributors, the essays explore questions of genre, medical science, gender, biopower, capitalism, with Gothic science fiction texts understood as uniquely inflected for their time and place.
Full Description
This timely book explores what might be termed 'Gothic science fiction' of the last three decades. This designation may at first appear contradictory, as the Gothic's connotations of the irrational and supernatural seem to conflict with the rational foundations of science fiction. However, this collection demonstrates that the two categories in fact overlap and intersect in creatively and critically fruitful ways. Understanding texts of this period by means of this hybrid category allows a fresh examination of their engagement with the dramatic socio-economic changes - in communication technology, medical science, globalization, and global politics - that have transformed the way we live, and for which Gothic science fiction texts provide compelling narrative modes. The essays in this collection reflect the current willingness among researchers to explore interpretations across genre, form, and discipline, as well as revealing a buoyant field of research in contemporary Gothic and science fiction studies.
The collection ranges across narrative media (including literature, film, graphic novels and trading card games) and across genres, taking in horror, science fiction, the Gothic, the New Weird and more. The essays explore questions of genre, medical science, gender, biopower and capitalism, demonstrating the ways in which Gothic science fiction texts stage contemporary concerns around power, anxiety, resistance and capital.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Foreword - Adam Roberts
Notes on contributors
Introduction - Sara Wasson and Emily Alder
Part I: Redefining Genres
1. In the Zone: Topologies of Genre Weirdness - Roger Luckhurst
2. Zombie Death Drive: Between Gothic and Science Fiction - Fred Botting
Part II: Biopower Capital
3. 'Death is Irrelevant': Gothic Science Fiction and the Biopolitics of Empire - Aris Mousoutzanis
4. 'A Butcher's Shop where the Meat Still Moved': Gothic Doubles, Organ Harvesting and Human Cloning - Sara Wasson
5. Guillermo del Toro's Cronos, or the Pleasures of Impurity - Laurence Davies
6. Infected with Life: Neo-Supernaturalism and the Gothic Zombie - Gwyneth Peaty
7. Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson's Gap Cycle - Emily Alder
Part III: Gender and Genre
8. The Superheated, Superdense Prose of David Conway: Gender and Subjectivity Beyond The Starry Wisdom - Mark P. Williams
9. Spatialized Ontologies: Toni Morrison's Science Fiction Traces in Gothic Spaces - Jerrilyn McGregory
10. The Gothic Punk Milieu in Popular Narrative Fictions - Nickianne Moody
11. Gothic Science Fiction in the Steampunk Graphic Novel: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Laura Hilton
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