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Restless Subjects in Rigid Systems: Risk and Speculation in Millennial Fictions of the North american Pacific Rim - Brossura

Wegener, Susanne

 
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Published within a decade around 2000, Kathryn Bigelow's Hollywood film Strange Days (1995), Karen T. Yamashita's novelTropic of Orange (1997), and Larissa Lai's novel Salt Fish Girl (2002) are aesthetically intricate, speculative fictions, passing perceptive critique on current political-economic discourses and their subtle reconfiguration of race, class, and gender. This study focuses on these three North American fictional texts whose dystopian near-future scenarios expose the significance of risk as a new rationality of governance. At the same time they illustrate neoliberal speculation as a new paradigm of subject formation at a hyper-capitalist, millennial Pacific Rim.

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Susanne Wegener (PhD) works on a postdoc project on genre and theory construction in literary criticism. Her research interests are theory of fiction, literature and political philosophy as well as history of ideas.

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