Imagining Alternative Worlds - Far-Right Fiction and the Power of Cultural Imaginaries

Imagining Alternative Worlds explores how the far right employs fictionality as a powerful political tool in the 21st century.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Literature, Movie Reviews, and the Cultural Imaginaries of the Far Right 2. Worlds Apart: Safe Spaces, Non-Places, and Beyond 3. Right on Time: Temporality, History, and Change 4. Skin in the Game: Racism Suffered and Imposed 5. Significant Others: Women, Sex, and Gender 6. Manning Up: Heroic Agency and Political Utopia 7. Concluding Remarks: Cultural Imaginaries and Far-right Subjectivities Appendix 1: Far-Right Fiction Appendix 2: Far-Right Movie Reviews

About the author

Christoffer Kølvraa is Associate Professor at the School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark. His research focuses on right-wing discourses and voices in Europe and the US, especially their affective performativity through provocation and ‘playfulness’.
Bernhard Forchtner is Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Media and Communication, University of Leicester, United Kingdom. His research focuses on European far-right parties and movements, especially their narrative self-construction and their discourses about environmental issues.

Summary

Imagining Alternative Worlds explores how the far right employs fictionality as a powerful political tool in the 21st century.

Product details

• Authors: Bernhard Forchtner, Forchtner Bernhard, Christoffer Kølvraa
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032254722
• ISBN: 978-1-032-25472-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & cultural history, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Literature & literary studies, Fascism & Nazism, Social and cultural history, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Biography, Literature and Literary studies