Alterity and capitalism in speculative fiction : estranging contemporary history /: estranging contemporary history. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tomás Vergara.
• Authors: Vergara, Tomás
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Anamorphic EstrangementChapter 2: Marxism as Narrative World-Building Method: New Weird Fiction and Capitalist Crisis in China Miéville's Bas-Lag TrilogyChapter 3: The Afterlives of Slavery: Spectres of the Antebellum in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Rivers Solomon's Sorrowland Chapter 4: Challenging Cultural Studies Through Dystopia: Catatonic Cultural Dominant in Noon's Falling Out of Cars and McCormack's Notes from a ComaChapter 5: Extrapolation and Social Reproduction: Anne Charnock's Dreams Before the Start of Time and Bina Shah's Before She SleepChapter 6: Conclusion: New Horizons for a Marxist Theory of Speculative Fiction.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (211 pages)
• Subjects: 809.3876; Speculative fiction -- History and criticism; Marxist criticism; Other (Philosophy) in literature; Capitalism in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031399244
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