The Boom & The Boom: Historical Rupture and Political Economy in Contemporary British and Chinese Science Fiction

Author:   Sonja Fritzsche ,  Gerry Canavan ,  Guangzhao Lyu
Publisher:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   3
ISBN:  

9781803742328


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   30 August 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Sonja Fritzsche ,  Gerry Canavan ,  Guangzhao Lyu
Publisher:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   3
Weight:   0.489kg
ISBN:  

9781803742328


ISBN 10:   1803742321
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   30 August 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Contents: Introduction: Mapping the Field: The Boom and the Boom – The Ones Who Walk Away: Disrupted Utopias in Han Song’s Red Star Over America and Iain M. Banks’s Culture Series – What’s Past Is Prologue: Historical Rupture in Hao Jingfang’s Vagabonds and Ken MacLeod’s Fall Revolution Quartet – Long Live the Vampire: Exploitive Heterotopias in China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station and Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide – From Consumption to Prosumption: Spectacle of Political Economy in James Lovegrove’s Days and Long Yi’s Earth Province – Past the Point of No Return: Economization and Deterritorialization in Liu Cixin’s Three-Body Trilogy and M. John Harrison’s Kefahuchi Tract Trilogy – Epilogue: A Confession of Breach.

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LYU Guangzhao is a lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Fudan University, Shanghai. He completed his PhD in Comparative Literature at University College London and received the «Support a New Scholar» grant (2021–2022) sponsored by Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA).

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