Explores the life and work of Ray Bradbury from a variety of perspectives. Noting the impact of the Southwest on Bradbury, some of the essays analyse Bradbury's southwest metaphors; other essays view Bradbury via the lens of post-colonialism; while others view Bradbury sociologically. From the scientific side, four essays by astronomers document how Bradbury formed the minds of many budding scientists with his vision.
Explores the life and work of Ray Bradbury from a variety of perspectives. Noting the impact of the Southwest on Bradbury, some of the essays analyse Bradbury's southwest metaphors; other essays view Bradbury via the lens of post-colonialism; while others view Bradbury sociologically. From the scientific side, four essays by astronomers document how Bradbury formed the minds of many budding scientists with his vision.
Gloria McMillan is a research associate at the University of Arizona and teaches English and literature at Pima Community College in Tucson, Arizona. She lives in Tucson.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword (Peter Smith) Preface (Gloria McMillan) Introduction: Landing on Bradbury's Western Mars (Gloria McMillan) Part One: Biographical Lens Miracles of Rare Device: Bradbury and the American Southwest (Jonathan R. Eller) The Sorcerer's Apprentices: How the Lives of Three Regional "Weird Fiction" Writers Became Creatively Entangled (Wolf Forrest) Part Two: Anthropological Lens Prescient Border Crossing: "I See You Never" and the Undocumented Mexicans Americans Prefer Not to See (Marleen S. Barr) Bradbury's Survivance Stories (Grace L. Dillon) A "Night Meeting" in the Southwest: Hospitality in Martian Chronicles (Adam Lawrence) Illustrating Otherness: Crossing Frontiers in The Illustrated Man (Francisco Laguna-Correa) Part Three: Literary Lens Loss in the Language of Tomorrow: Journeying Through Tucson on the Way to "Usher II" (Aaron Barlow) Bradbury's Mars: Pathway to Reinvention and Redemption (Kimberly Fain) The Desert Is Earth and Mars: An Ecocritical, Bachelardian Exploration of "And the Moon Be Still as Bright" and It Came from Outer Space (Christopher Cokinos) Part Four: Scientific Lens Why Does Mars Beckon Us? (Espinoza) The Exploration of Mars: An Unintentional Invasion? (David M. Acklam) A Martian Chronicle (Charles L. Dugan, Jr.) The Naming of Names (Christopher P. McKay and Carol Stoker) Part Five: Media Lens De-Alienating the Alien: The Limits of Empathy in NBC's The Martian Chronicles Miniseries (Paul Cote) The Illustrated Man Illustrates Our Future (Howard Allen) Silver Locusts on the Silver Screen: Bradbury's Western Mars Confronts 1960s British Art-Cinema (Martin R. Hall) Part Six: Educational Lens Teaching Martians in Tucson (Gloria McMillan) About the Contributors
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword (Peter Smith) Preface (Gloria McMillan) Introduction: Landing on Bradbury's Western Mars (Gloria McMillan) Part One: Biographical Lens Miracles of Rare Device: Bradbury and the American Southwest (Jonathan R. Eller) The Sorcerer's Apprentices: How the Lives of Three Regional "Weird Fiction" Writers Became Creatively Entangled (Wolf Forrest) Part Two: Anthropological Lens Prescient Border Crossing: "I See You Never" and the Undocumented Mexicans Americans Prefer Not to See (Marleen S. Barr) Bradbury's Survivance Stories (Grace L. Dillon) A "Night Meeting" in the Southwest: Hospitality in Martian Chronicles (Adam Lawrence) Illustrating Otherness: Crossing Frontiers in The Illustrated Man (Francisco Laguna-Correa) Part Three: Literary Lens Loss in the Language of Tomorrow: Journeying Through Tucson on the Way to "Usher II" (Aaron Barlow) Bradbury's Mars: Pathway to Reinvention and Redemption (Kimberly Fain) The Desert Is Earth and Mars: An Ecocritical, Bachelardian Exploration of "And the Moon Be Still as Bright" and It Came from Outer Space (Christopher Cokinos) Part Four: Scientific Lens Why Does Mars Beckon Us? (Espinoza) The Exploration of Mars: An Unintentional Invasion? (David M. Acklam) A Martian Chronicle (Charles L. Dugan, Jr.) The Naming of Names (Christopher P. McKay and Carol Stoker) Part Five: Media Lens De-Alienating the Alien: The Limits of Empathy in NBC's The Martian Chronicles Miniseries (Paul Cote) The Illustrated Man Illustrates Our Future (Howard Allen) Silver Locusts on the Silver Screen: Bradbury's Western Mars Confronts 1960s British Art-Cinema (Martin R. Hall) Part Six: Educational Lens Teaching Martians in Tucson (Gloria McMillan) About the Contributors
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