Alterity and Capitalism in Speculative Fiction: Estranging Contemporary History 3031399234, 9783031399237

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Speculative fiction has been traditionally studied in Marxist literary criticism, following Darko Suvin’s paradigmatic m

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This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative ficti

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Focusing on the contemporary period, this book brings together critical age studies and contemporary science fiction to

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This book represents the first extended consideration of contemporary crime fiction as a European phenomenon. Understand

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Traverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race,

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