Essays on teaching classic and lesser-known works of science fiction In its often dystopian and apocalyptic visions of a world yet to come, science fiction wrestles with important issues of our time and can help prepare us for a future that seems very much in flux. Addressing texts from the late nineteenth century to the present, Teaching Science Fiction will help instructors introduce science fiction's power to draw readers into alternate worlds in order to mirror the possibilities-both positive and negative-present in our own.
The essays in this volume use various theoretical lenses-including utopian theory, feminist rhetorical studies, game studies, and environmental humanities-to foreground the sociopolitical aspect of science fiction and its relation to social justice. Essays shine a light on feminist and postcolonial utopias, ecofiction, ethnofuturism, and Indigenous futurism, some of the many manifestations of science fiction that seek to interrogate conceptualizations of race, gender, ethnicity, language, and species.
This volume contains discussion of Bong Joon Ho, Snowpiercer; Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars; Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower and Kindred; Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao; Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland; Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go; Larissa Lai, "Rachel"; Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness; Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem; George Miller, Mad Max:
| ISBN: | 9781603297608 |
| Publication date: | 26th February 2027 |
| Author: | Gerry Canavan |
| Publisher: | Modern Language Association of America an imprint of Modern Language Association |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 366 pages |
| Series: | Options for Teaching |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
Essays on teaching classic and lesser-known works of science fiction In its often dystopian and apocalyptic visions of a world yet to come, science fiction wrestles with important issues of our time and can help prepare us for a future that seems very much in flux. Addressing texts from the late nineteenth century to the present, Teaching Science Fiction will help instructors introduce science fiction's power to draw readers into alternate worlds in order to mirror the possibilities-both positive and negative-present in our own.
Teaching Science Fiction features in the following genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
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Teaching Science Fiction was written by Gerry Canavan and published by Modern Language Association of America an imprint of Modern Language Association
Teaching Science Fiction has 366 pages
Yes it is part of Options for Teaching series
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