Alterity and Capitalism in Speculative Fiction: Estranging Contemporary History
Author:   Tomás Vergara
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Pages:   206
Publication Date:   06 October 2024
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Author:   Tomás Vergara
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783031399268


ISBN 10:   3031399269
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   06 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Anamorphic Estrangement.- Chapter 2: Marxism as Narrative World-Building Method: New Weird Fiction and Capitalist Crisis in China Miéville’s Bas-Lag Trilogy.- Chapter 3: The Afterlives of Slavery: Spectres of the Antebellum in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland.- Chapter 4: Challenging Cultural Studies Through Dystopia: Catatonic Cultural Dominant in Noon’s Falling Out of Cars and McCormack’s Notes from a Coma.- Chapter 5: Extrapolation and Social Reproduction: Anne Charnock’s Dreams Before the Start of Time and Bina Shah’s Before She Sleep.- Chapter 6: Conclusion: New Horizons for a Marxist Theory of Speculative Fiction.

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Tomás Vergara completed his Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is a lecturer in English at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile. His research interests are focused on speculative fiction, Marxist literary criticism and the environmental humanities. This interest ranges from early forms of science fiction and the Gothic in Victorian literature to the dystopian imaginaries of cyberpunk in Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, and the radical alterity of China Miéville’s New Weird fiction attempting to weaponize the fantastic to revitalise the imaginary of revolution. The particular focus on speculative fiction is a consequence of this broader interest in the fantastic. Tomás has published an article on Jeff Noon’s Falling out of Cars in the C21 Literature journal.

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