Environments in Science Fiction - Essays on Alternative Spaces

"This book focuses especially on science fiction that includes depictions of the future. There are ecocritical texts that deal with space/place and science fiction criticism that deals with dystopias but there is no other collection that focuses on the intersection of the two"--

List of contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ¿vii

Introduction ¿1

Part One. In the Margins: Recentering Individuals, Societies and Environments

Heterotopian Possibilities in Science Fictions by Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett, Samuel Delany and Ursula K. Le Guin (Lauren J. Lacey)

Acceptance of the Marginalized in Marge Piercy's He, She, It and Melissa Scott's Trouble and Her Friends (Melanie A. Marotta)

Anathem's Flows of Power: State Space and Nomadology on a Cloistered Planet (Jonathan P. Lewis)

Part Two. Shifting Worlds Through ­Re-Creation

Karel ¿apek's War with the Newts: Deterritorializing Land and Language (Adam Lawrence)¿64

Mary Shelley's Literary Laboratory: Frankenstein and the Emergence of the Modern Laboratory in ­Nineteenth-Century Europe (Matthew Hadley)

Ecotopian London: Morris's Geography of Conservation (Margaret S. Kennedy)

Part Three. Re-Viewing Damaged Worlds Through Quests

Underworlds of Despair and Hope in Cormac McCarthy's The Road (Justin T. Noetzel)

The Silence of the Subaltern: The Rejection of History and Language in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome (Shayani Bhattacharya)

A Case of Terraphilia: Longing for Place and Community in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Susan M. Bernardo)

Discursive Transgressions and Ideological Negotiations: From Orwell's 1984 to Butler's Parable of the Sower (Keith Elphick)

About the Contributors

Index

About the author

Susan M. Bernardo is professor emerita at Wagner College. She lives in Glen Gardner, New Jersey.Donald E. Palumbo is a professor of English at East Carolina University. He lives in Greenville, North Carolina.C.W. Sullivan III is Distinguished Professor of arts and sciences at East Carolina University and a full member of the Welsh Academy. He is the author of numerous books and the on-line journal Celtic Cultural Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Susan M. (EDT)/ Palumbo Bernardo
• Assisted by: Susan M. Bernardo (Editor), C. W. Sullivan III (Editor), Donald E. Palumbo (Editor), C. W. Sullivan (Editor), Iii C. W. Sullivan (Editor), C. W. Sullivan III (Editor)
• Publisher: McFarland
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2014
• EAN: 9780786475797
• ISBN: 978-0-7864-7579-7
• Series: Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy; Critical Explorations in Scien; Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies