Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 3030278921 ISBN 13: 9783030278922

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Riassunto

<p></p><p><i>Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction</i>&nbsp;explores the ethical concerns and dimensions of representations of the future of global science fiction, focusing on the issues that dominate utopian, dystopian and science fiction literature. The essays examine recent visions of the future in science fiction and re-examine earlier texts through contemporary lenses. Across fourteen chapters, the collection considers authors from Algeria, Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the UK and USA. The volume delves into a range of ethical questions of immediate contemporary relevance, including environmental ethics, postcolonial ethics, social justice, animal ethics and the ethics of alterity.&nbsp;</p><br><p></p>

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Informazioni sull'autore

<div><p></p><p><b>Zachary Kendal</b> is a librarian in Rare Books at Monash University Library, Australia. He was recently an editor-in-chief of&nbsp;<i>Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique</i> and is completing a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies at Monash University, researching ethics and literary representation in science fiction.</p><p><b>Aisling Smith</b> is a teaching associate in literary studies at Monash University and Deakin University, Australia. Her PhD examined affect theory and the works of David Foster Wallace. She is also a creative writer, former editor-in-chief of <i>Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique</i> and an editor of the <i>Verge: Chimera </i>(2017) anthology.</p><p><b>Giulia Champion</b> is completing her doctoral thesis at the University of Warwick, UK. Her research investigates postcolonial literature in original languages and aims to theorise literary cannibalism as a set of practices through the world ecology framework and historical materialism. </p><p><b>Andrew Milner</b> is Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Monash University, Australia, and Honorary Professor at University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of numerous books including, most recently,&nbsp;<i>Locating Science Fiction</i>&nbsp;(2012), <i>Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism</i>&nbsp;(2018) and, with J. R. Burgmann,&nbsp;<i>Science Fiction and Climate Change</i> (in press).</p><br><p></p></div>

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3030278921
• ISBN 13: 9783030278922
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 335
• Redattore: Kendal Zachary, Smith Aisling, Champion Giulia, Milner Andrew
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