Science Fiction, New Space Opera, and Neoliberal Globalism Nostalgia for Infinity

Informationen zum Autor Jerome Winter is a lecturer at the University of California, Riverside and has served as editor of speculative fiction for the Los Angeles Review of Books . Klappentext New Space Opera is a recent subgenre within science fiction that displays a canny engagement with contemporary cultural politics in the age of globalization. This book offers close readings of the evolving canon of the genre to show how its complex political allegories can be seen as a response to the powerful contemporary ideology of neoliberalism and its championing of free-market ideas. A timely look at a branch of science fiction that is deeply engaged with the problems of the present even as it casts its eye to far futures, Science Fiction, New Space Opera, and Neoliberal Globalism offers readers and scholars alike a chance to appreciate a thriving area of popular literature. Zusammenfassung This is first critical book devoted to New Space Opera and its engagement with neoliberal cultural politics.

Product details

• Authors: Jerome Winter, Winter Jerome
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 15.11.2016
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9781783169443
• ISBN: 978-1-78316-944-3
• Pages: 256
• Series: New Dimensions in Science Fiction
• Subjects: New, Space, Fiction, Science, neoliberal, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, Opera, infinity, nostalgia, for, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Globalism