UID:
almafu_9961250888402883
Format:
1 online resource (112 pages).
ISBN:
9781000923193
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1000923193
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9781003398103
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1003398103
Series Statement:
Interdisciplinary research in gender, vol 11
Content:
"The Planetary Humanism of European Women's Science Fiction argues that utopian SF written by European women has, since the seventeenth century, played an important role in exploring the racial and gender possibilities of the outer limits of the humanist imagination. This book focuses on six works of science fiction from the UK, France, Spain, and Italy: Jennifer Marie Brissett's Elysium; Nicoletta Vallorani's Sulla Sabbia di Sur and Il Cuore Finto di DR; Aliette de Bodard's Xuya Universe series; Elia Barcelo´'s Consecuencias Naturales; and Historias del Crazy Bar, a collection of stories by Lola Robles and Maria Concepcio´n Regueiro. It sets these in conversation with key gender and critical race scholars: Judith Butler, Rosi Braidotti, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Paul Gilroy, and Jack Halberstam. It asserts that a key concern for feminism, anti-racism, and SF now is to seek inventive ways of returning to the question of the human in the context of increasing racial and gender divisions. Offering unique access to contemporary and historical women writers who have mobilised the utopian imagination to rethink the human, this book is of use to those conducting research in Gender Studies, Philosophy, History, and Literature"-- Provided by publisher.
Note:
Introduction and Roadmap Chapter 1: Towards New Forms of Humanism Chapter 2: Contextualising the History of Science Fiction Chapter 3: Re-historicising the Future: Re-contextualising Systems of Race and Gender in Women's Sciece Fiction Chapter 4: Embodying New Forms of Humanism: The Fate of Race and Gender in Queer Assemblages Chapter 5: Pregnancy, by Mistake: Transgressing Race and Gender Through Queered Extraterrestrial Fertility Chapter 6: Non-Reproductive Planetary Communities: Race, Gender, Kinship, and Forgetting to Conform Chapter 7: At the Borders of the Planetary Chapter 8: Conclusion: New Forms of Humanism Summaries of Primary Science Fiction Texts --.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032503509
Language:
English
Keywords:
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