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Science fiction and empire

Kerslake, Patricia (author.).

Summary: This work shows an impressive range of reading and a willingness to grapple with concepts of imperialism and post-colonialism.

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  • ISBN: 9781846314018
  • ISBN: 1846314011
  • ISBN: 9781846310249
  • ISBN: 1846310245
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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    1 online resource (217 pages).
  • Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2007.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-213) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 1. The Self and Representations of the Other in Science Fiction; 2. Resistance Is Futile: Silencing and Cultural Appropriation; 3. The Word for World Is Forest: Metaphor and Empire in Science Fiction; 4. Things Fall Apart: Relativity, Distance and the Periphery; 5. Moments of Empire: Perceptions of Lasswitz and Wells; 6. Exoticising the Future: American Greats; 7. The Shape of Things to Come: Homo futuris and the Imperial Project; 8. A Postcolonial Imagination: Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars; 9. Beyond Empire: Meta-empire and Postcoloniality.
Restrictions on Access Note:
Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Science fiction, American -- History and criticism
Imperialism in literature
Science fiction, English -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Imperialism in literature
Science fiction, American
Science fiction, English
Genre: Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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