Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times

by Susana Loza Hampshire College

Overview

This book explores the resurgence of racial masquerade in Western popular media. Through a close examination of science fiction, horror, and fantasy texts and films, it contemplates the fundamental, albeit changing, role that ethnic simulation plays in American and British cultures in a putatively postracial and postcolonial era.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498507967
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	12/27/2017
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.27(w) x 9.39(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Susana Loza is associate professor of critical race, gender, and media studies at Hampshire College.

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: Playing Alien in Post-Racial Times Chapter 2: Colonial Cosplay: Steampunk and the After-Life of Empire Chapter 3: Imperial Fictions, Post-Racial Fantasies: Doctor Who in the Age of Neoliberal Multiculturalism Chapter 4: Monkeys, Monsters, and Minstrels in Rise and Dawn of the Planet of The Apes Afterword: Trumpacolypse Now, Decolonized Tomorrows

Editorial Reviews

Susana Loza’s Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times is a much needed and cutting edge critical intervention in monster studies, speculative fiction, and critical ethnic studies. Contextualized within cultural and political histories, it offers timely and intersectionally nuanced readings of popular culture that persuasively lead us to this contemporary moment in which white supremacy and imperialism have boiled over in increasingly dangerous ways. Loza’s text illuminates the intricate and shifting relations of power that underlie so-called benign postracial monsters.

Bernadette Marie Calafell

Far-ranging, provocative, and so damn smart… Loza takes us on a wild ride through steampunk, Doctor Who and Planet of the Apes, tracking the sinister afterlife of settler colonialism in the monstrous imaginaries of our popular culture.    

Junot Díaz