Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 232 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-1-137-36763-1
Content:
Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism offers a typology of alien encounters and addresses a range of texts including classic novels of alien encounter by H.G. Wells and Robert Heinlein; recent blockbusters by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler and Sheri Tepper; and experimental science fiction by Peter Watts and Housuke Nojiri
Note:
"Cover" -- "Half-Title" -- "Series" -- "Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Preface" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Introduction: Why Do We Need Aliens?" -- "Part I: Confrontation" -- "1 "The Force that Gives us Meaning": Alien Invasion and Search for Redemption" -- "2 Idylls of the Same: Soviet SF, Cosmic Humanism, and Escape from History" -- "Part II: Assimilation" -- "3 The Contagion of Posthumanity: Alien Infestation and the Paradox of Subjectivity" -- "4 Human Skins, Alien Masks: Allegories of Postcolonial Guilt" -- "Part III: Transformation" -- "5 The Human Trinity: What Makes Us Other?" -- "6 Stanislaw Lem and the Holocaust of Humanism" -- "Postscript" -- "Notes" -- "Works Cited"
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-137-36762-4
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-1-349-47453-0
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Science-Fiction-Literatur
;
Außerirdische Intelligenz
;
Posthumanismus
