Science Fiction and Empire
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Oxford
- Publish date: 03/15/2007
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Introduction 1. The Self and Representations of the Other in Science Fiction 2. Resistance Is Futile: Silencing and Cultural Appropriation 3. The word for world Is Forest: Metaphor and Empire in Science Fiction 4. Things Fall Apart: Relativity, Distance and the Periphery 5. Moments of Empire: Perceptions of Lasswitz and Wells 6. Exoticising the Future: American greats 7. The Shape of Things to Come: Homo futuris and the Imperial Project 8. A Postcolonial Imagination: kim Stanley Robinson's Mars 9. Beyond Empire: Meta-empire and Postcoloniality Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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