Format:
VIII, 244 S.
,
23 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
0230354475
,
9780230354470
,
9781349346479
Note:
Includes bibliography (p. 229-236) and index
,
1. "Fictions where a man could live" : worldlessness against the void in Salman Rushdie's Grimus -- 2. "The only way out is through" : spaces of narrative and the narrative of space in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight robber -- 3. There's no splace like home : domesticity, difference, and the "long space" of short fiction in Vandana Singh's The woman who thought she was a planet -- 4. Claiming the futures that are, or, The cunning of history in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta chromosome and Manjula Padmanabhan's "Gandhi-toxin" -- 5. Mob zombies, alien nations, and cities of the undead : monstrous subjects and the post-millennial nomos in I am legend and District 9 -- 6. Third-world punks, or, Watch out for the worlds behind you.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137283573
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Science-Fiction-Literatur
;
Postkoloniale Literatur
;
Utopie
;
Globalisierung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Bibliografie
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