Science fiction represents a diverse community of writers and readers that spans the entire world. This collection provides a global tour of the genre, with essays about Latin American, European, African, Arabic, Indian, Japanese, and Chinese science fiction providing insights about how writers around the world have explored and reinvigorated the genre. Essays by prominent critics from five continents inform about particular cultures and analyze representative texts by authors such as Tobias S. Buckell, Lourenco Mutarelli, Stanislaw Lem, Masande Ntshanga, Tawfiq Al-Hakim, Anil Menon, and Cixin…mehr
Science fiction represents a diverse community of writers and readers that spans the entire world. This collection provides a global tour of the genre, with essays about Latin American, European, African, Arabic, Indian, Japanese, and Chinese science fiction providing insights about how writers around the world have explored and reinvigorated the genre. Essays by prominent critics from five continents inform about particular cultures and analyze representative texts by authors such as Tobias S. Buckell, Lourenco Mutarelli, Stanislaw Lem, Masande Ntshanga, Tawfiq Al-Hakim, Anil Menon, and Cixin Liu. The contributing scholars examine how national experiences have shaped these narratives, which often differ strikingly from Anglo-American science fiction. An introductory survey of foreign-language science fiction in the United States endeavors to explain why so many of these texts have remained unknown to Anglophone readers. An extensive bibliography lists numerous resources for further study of science fiction from various parts of the world.
Gary Westfahl, a professor emeritus at the University of La Verne, California, has authored, edited, or co-edited 35 books about science fiction and fantasy, and has written hundreds of articles and reviews. In 2003, he received the Science Fiction Research Association's Pilgrim Award for his lifetime contributions to science fiction and fantasy scholarship.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (Gary Westfahl) Bringing Global Science Fiction to America: The Efforts of Hugo Gernsback and Donald A. Wollheim, and How They Failed Gary Westfahl Decolonial Imaginary in the Rhetorical Work of Chicana/o Speculative Fiction: Allegory and Oppositional Consciousness in a Neoliberal (Near) Future Rubén R. Mendoza The Interstellar Initiative: Space and Identity in Expatriate Anglophone Caribbean Science Fiction Shaun Duke Dispatches from the Technological (Post)human: The Trans-American Anxiety of Progress Pablo Brescia The Hanged Man or Stillborn: Science-Fictional Comparative Relations Between the Film and the Novel O Natimorto Luana Barossi American and French Science Fiction: A Study in Influence and Confluence (1950-1980) Simon Bréan Science Fiction in Germany, Yesterday and Today Fritz Heidorn A German Hero for the Cold War: Wolfgang F. Henschel's Alpha Alpha (1972) Steffen Hantke Actor-Network Theory in Stanislaw Lem's His Master's Voice Mark Biswas Why Stanislaw Lem's Final Novel Is a Fiasco Gary Westfahl An African Alien: Indigenizing the Alien in Masande Ntshanga's Triangulum Gerald Gaylard Futuristic Legacies of Biafra in Tochi Onyebuchi's War Girls (2019) and Rebel Sisters (2020) Annika McPherson Surviving Reality: Dystopian Speculative Fiction and the Rise of a New Arabic Novel Wessam Elmeligi Dystopian Technologies in Arabic Science Fiction: Case-Studies of Palestine+100 and Iraq+100 Aya Labanieh Ruptured Bodies and Invaded Grains: Biotechnology as Bioviolence in Indian Science Fiction Suparno Banerjee Altars of Alienness: The Curious Case of Indian Science Fiction Sami Ahmad Khan White Perils, Yellow Perils: The Changing Nature of Foreign Villainy in Asian Pulps, 1842-1947 Jess Nevins Solving, and Not Solving, Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem Gary Westfahl Many Paths, One Journey: Cixin Liu's Three-Body Trilogy Bradford Lyau Black Magic from a Certain Southeast Asian Country? Gong-tau as the Ambiguity of the Inexplicable in Ni-Kuang's Science Fiction William Tung-Peng Sun A Bibliography of Works About Global Science Fiction About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (Gary Westfahl) Bringing Global Science Fiction to America: The Efforts of Hugo Gernsback and Donald A. Wollheim, and How They Failed Gary Westfahl Decolonial Imaginary in the Rhetorical Work of Chicana/o Speculative Fiction: Allegory and Oppositional Consciousness in a Neoliberal (Near) Future Rubén R. Mendoza The Interstellar Initiative: Space and Identity in Expatriate Anglophone Caribbean Science Fiction Shaun Duke Dispatches from the Technological (Post)human: The Trans-American Anxiety of Progress Pablo Brescia The Hanged Man or Stillborn: Science-Fictional Comparative Relations Between the Film and the Novel O Natimorto Luana Barossi American and French Science Fiction: A Study in Influence and Confluence (1950-1980) Simon Bréan Science Fiction in Germany, Yesterday and Today Fritz Heidorn A German Hero for the Cold War: Wolfgang F. Henschel's Alpha Alpha (1972) Steffen Hantke Actor-Network Theory in Stanislaw Lem's His Master's Voice Mark Biswas Why Stanislaw Lem's Final Novel Is a Fiasco Gary Westfahl An African Alien: Indigenizing the Alien in Masande Ntshanga's Triangulum Gerald Gaylard Futuristic Legacies of Biafra in Tochi Onyebuchi's War Girls (2019) and Rebel Sisters (2020) Annika McPherson Surviving Reality: Dystopian Speculative Fiction and the Rise of a New Arabic Novel Wessam Elmeligi Dystopian Technologies in Arabic Science Fiction: Case-Studies of Palestine+100 and Iraq+100 Aya Labanieh Ruptured Bodies and Invaded Grains: Biotechnology as Bioviolence in Indian Science Fiction Suparno Banerjee Altars of Alienness: The Curious Case of Indian Science Fiction Sami Ahmad Khan White Perils, Yellow Perils: The Changing Nature of Foreign Villainy in Asian Pulps, 1842-1947 Jess Nevins Solving, and Not Solving, Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem Gary Westfahl Many Paths, One Journey: Cixin Liu's Three-Body Trilogy Bradford Lyau Black Magic from a Certain Southeast Asian Country? Gong-tau as the Ambiguity of the Inexplicable in Ni-Kuang's Science Fiction William Tung-Peng Sun A Bibliography of Works About Global Science Fiction About the Contributors Index
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