Globalization, Utopia and Postcolonial Science Fiction: New Maps of Hope

by E. Smith

Overview

This study considers the recent surge of science fiction narratives from the postcolonial Third World as a utopian response to the spatial, political, and representational dilemmas that attend globalization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230354470
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/10/2012
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 2.70(d)

About the Author

ERIC SMITH is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA. He has published widely on Postcolonial and Modern/Postmodern British Literatures.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Desire Called Postcolonial Science Fiction "Fictions Where a Man Could Live': Worldlessness Against the Void in Salman Rushdie's Grimus 'The Only Way Out is Through': Spaces of Narrative and the Narrative of Space in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber There's No Splace Like Home: Domesticity, Difference, and the 'Long Space' of Short Fiction in Vandana Singh's The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet Claiming the Futures That Are, or, The Cunning of History in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome and Manjula Padmanabhan's Gandhi-Toxin Mob Zombies, Alien Nations, and Cities of the Undead: Monstrous Subjects and the Postmillennial Nomos in I am Legend and District 9 Third World Punks, or, Watch Out for the Worlds Behind You Conclusion: Reimagining the Material Selected Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'Smith's remarkable fluency in the areas of postcolonial studies and theories of globalization and his ability to integrate the complex political-economic and philosophical discourses of his theoretical texts with provocative, insightful close readings of the fictional texts are equally impressive. This intelligent, imaginative, and sophisticated book will be an important and influential contribution to postcolonial studies, science fiction studies, contemporary literature studies, and cultural studies.' - Professor John Rieder, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, USA

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