An exploration of contemporary speculative fiction's power to intervene in the social, political, and environmental crises and as a means of navigating the supposedly post-truth moment and the deterioration of basic agreement about reality itself.
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John Rieder is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA. He is author of Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction (2008), Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System (2017), Speculative Epistemologies (2021), and many other publications. He received the Science Fiction Research Association's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.
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Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. An exploration of contemporary speculative fictions power to intervene in social, political, and environmental crises, this book demonstrates how the genre provides resources against demagogic falsehoods, conspiratorial fantasies, and the denial of scientific and historical evidence. In the face of conspiracy theories, climate change denial, and cultural warfare over gender, race, and history, speculative fictions willing suspension of belief, as well as disbelief, enables us to sidestep the barriers to dialogue raised by dogmatism and exit the narrow confines of partisan debate. It offers imaginative possibilities that can help readers escape from both right-wing demagoguery and status quo complacency. While elaborating this appraisal of speculative fiction in readings of recent work by Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone, N. K. Jemisin, Minsoo Kang, Ann Leckie, Arkady Martine, China Mieville, Rivers Solomon, and Ben H. Winters, John Rieders Truth, Lies, and Speculative Fiction urges scholars and teachers to employ speculative fictions power in secondary and higher education. An exploration of contemporary speculative fictions power to intervene in the social, political, and environmental crises and as a means of navigating the supposedly post-truth moment and the deterioration of basic agreement about reality itself. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781350551527
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Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. An exploration of contemporary speculative fictions power to intervene in social, political, and environmental crises, this book demonstrates how the genre provides resources against demagogic falsehoods, conspiratorial fantasies, and the denial of scientific and historical evidence. In the face of conspiracy theories, climate change denial, and cultural warfare over gender, race, and history, speculative fictions willing suspension of belief, as well as disbelief, enables us to sidestep the barriers to dialogue raised by dogmatism and exit the narrow confines of partisan debate. It offers imaginative possibilities that can help readers escape from both right-wing demagoguery and status quo complacency. While elaborating this appraisal of speculative fiction in readings of recent work by Amal El Mohtar and Max Gladstone, N. K. Jemisin, Minsoo Kang, Ann Leckie, Arkady Martine, China Mieville, Rivers Solomon, and Ben H. Winters, John Rieders Truth, Lies, and Speculative Fiction urges scholars and teachers to employ speculative fictions power in secondary and higher education. An exploration of contemporary speculative fictions power to intervene in the social, political, and environmental crises and as a means of navigating the supposedly post-truth moment and the deterioration of basic agreement about reality itself. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781350551527
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