Overview

Bringing together papers presented at the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy from 2005 to 2013, this collection of essays includes Veronica Hollinger's keynote address, ""The Body on the Slab,"" and Robert Runte's Aurora Award-winning paper, ""Why I Read Canadian Speculative Fiction,"" along with 15 other contributions on science fiction and fantasy literature, television and music by Canadian creators. Authors discussed include Charles de Lint, Nalo Hopkinson, Tanya Huff, Esther Rochon, Peter Watts and Robert Charles Wilson. Essays on the television show Supernatural and the Scott Pilgrim comics series are also included.

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Author:   Allan Weiss
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.345kg
ISBN:  

9780786495924

ISBN 10:   0786495928
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   12 December 2014
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction—Allan Weiss Keynote Addresses Why I Read Canadian Speculative Fiction: The Social Dimension of Reading—Robert Runté The Body on the Slab—Veronica Hollinger Canadian Science Fiction Cybernetic Opium Eating, the Kantian Use of Human Beings and Neuromancing the Gothic Imagination: A Narrative Link—David Milman One Thing After Another—Dominick Grace Here Be Monsters: Posthuman Adaptation and Subjectivity in Peter Watts’ Starfish—Clare Wall Robert Charles Wilson’s Mysterium: Thoughts on the Modern Reception of Gnosticism—Michael Kaler New ­Half-Way Tree and the Second World: Themes of Nation and Colonization in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber—Brecken Hancock Canadian Fantasy and Dark Fantasy Sacred Cities: Charles de Lint’s Newford Books and the Mythologizing of the North American Urban Landscape—Cat Ashton The Word and the Flesh: Natural Law vs. Catholic Dogma in Rikki Ducnornet’s The Stain—Tammy Dasti Writing About Invented Places: Esther Rochon’s Archipelago of Vrénalik—Maude Deschênes-Pradet Speculating Diversity: Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring and the Use of Speculative Fiction to Disrupt Singular Interpretations of Place—Derek ­Newman-Stille “God’s Country,” Evil’s Playground: Susie Moloney, Michael Rowe, Brian Horeck and the Northern Ontario Gothic—Cat Ashton Can the Witch Speak? The Supernatural Subaltern in Kelley Armstrong’s Otherworld—Adam Guzkowski Navigating the Darkness: Blindness and Vampirism in Tanya Huff’s Blood Books—Derek ­Newman-Stille Media Expressions Scott Pilgrim vs. the Megacity—Chester N. Scoville From “Space Oddity” to Canadian Reality—Isabelle Fournier From Monstrous Mommies to Hunting Heroines: The Evolution of Women on Supernatural—Lisa Macklem About the Contributors Index

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Solid pieces of scholarship and engaging, accessible reads --<i>Science Fiction Studies</i>.

“Solid pieces of scholarship and engaging, accessible reads”—Science Fiction Studies; “contributes to our overall appreciation of SF and of Canada”—SFRA Review.

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Allan Weiss is an associate professor of English and humanities at York University in Toronto. He edited two previous proceedings volumes for the conference, Perspectives on the Canadian Fantastic and Further Perspectives on the Canadian Fantastic, and his short-story collection Living Room appeared in 2001.

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