Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction

Focusing on the contemporary period, this book brings together critical age studies and contemporary science fiction to establish the centrality of age and ageing in dystopian, speculative and science-fiction imaginaries. Analysing texts from Europe, North America and South Asia, as well as television programmes and films, the contributions range from essays which establish genre-based trends in the representation of age and ageing, to very focused studies of particular texts and concerns. As a whole, the volume probes the relationship between speculative/science fiction and our understanding of what it is to be a human in time: the time of our own lives and the times of both the past and the future.>

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• Authors: Sarah Falcus, Maricel Oro-Piqueras
• Assisted by: Sarah Falcus (Editor), Falcus Sarah (Editor), Kate De Medeiros (Editor), Maricel Oró-Piqueras (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2024
• EAN: 9781350230705
• ISBN: 978-1-350-23070-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 232 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life; Bloomsbury Studies in the Huma
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Science Fiction & Fantasy, Psychology of ageing, c 2000 to c 2009, Age groups: the elderly, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Film: styles & genres, c 2010 to c 2019, Maturation & Ageing, Literary studies: from c 2000