Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction

Name: Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
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ISBN: 9780819568748

ISBN-10: 0819568740

ISBN-13: 9780819568748

Edition: 2008

Authors: John Rieder

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This is the first full-length study of emerging Anglo-American science fiction's relation to the history, discourses, and ideologies of colonialism and imperialism. Nearly all scholars and critics of early science fiction acknowledge that colonialism is an important and relevant part of its historical context, and recent scholarship has emphasized imperialism's impact on late Victorian Gothic and adventure fiction and on Anglo-American popular and literary culture in general. John Rieder argues that colonial history and ideology are crucial components of science fiction's displaced references to history and its engagement in ideological production. He proposes that the profound ambivalence…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 5/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

JOHN RIEDER is a professor of English at the University of Hawai'i at M'anoa.




Introduction: The Colonial Gaze and the Frame of Science Fiction



Fantasies of Appropriation: Lost Races and Discovered Wealth



Dramas of Interpretation



Artificial Humans and the Construction of Race



Visions of Catastrophe


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