Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

2020-02-29 Literary Criticism

Author : Susan Watkins
Release : 2020-02-29
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Contemporary Women’s Post-Apocalyptic Fiction written by Susan Watkins. This book was released on 2020-02-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how contemporary women novelists have successfully transformed and rewritten the conventions of post-apocalyptic fiction. Since the dawn of the new millennium, there has been an outpouring of writing that depicts the end of the world as we know it, and women writers are no exception to this trend. However, the book argues that their fiction is distinctive. Contemporary women’s work in this genre avoids conservatism, a nostalgic mourning for the past, and the focus on restoring what has been lost, aspects key to much male authored apocalyptic fiction. Instead, contemporary women writers show readers the ways in which patriarchy and neo-colonialism are intrinsically implicated in the disasters they envision, and offer qualified hope for a new beginning for society, culture and literature after an imagined apocalyptic event. Exploring science, nature and matter, the posthuman body, the maternal imaginary, time, narrative and history, literature and the word, and the post-secular, the book covers a wide variety of writers and addresses issues of nationality, race and ethnicity, as well as gender and sexuality.

Is It French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France

2023 Electronic books

Author : Mary Harrod
Release : 2023
Genre : Electronic books
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Book Rating : 950/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Is It French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France written by Mary Harrod. This book was released on 2023. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zusammenfassung: This book investigates the recently accelerated phenomenon of mainstream French film and serial television's remarkable popularity not only within but - more novelly for European audiovisual narratives - outside the domestic context. Treating changes that have taken place in France's production landscape during the mass rollout of global streaming platforms as revelatory of broader tendencies in media production and circulation in Europe and beyond, the collection explores emergent influential players (Omar Sy, Camille Cottin, Alexandre Aja and Fanny Herrero), companies such as Netflix and Gaumont, and new genres, identities and representations on screen. It thus draws together a body of new research by international experts in French and European media production to analyse popular film and television series from France through a postnational lens with regards to both economic and institutional norms and to culture as a whole

Post-Empire Imaginaries?

2015-07-28 Literary Criticism

Author : Barbara Buchenau
Release : 2015-07-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Post-Empire Imaginaries? written by Barbara Buchenau. This book was released on 2015-07-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empires as political entities may be a thing of the past, but as a concept, empire is alive and kicking. From heritage tourism and costume dramas to theories of the imperial idea(l): empire sells. Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires presents innovative scholarship on the lives and legacies of empires in diverse media such as literature, film, advertising, and the visual arts. Though rooted in real space and history, the post-empire and its twin, the post-imperial, emerge as ungraspable ideational constructs. The volume convincingly establishes empire as welcoming resistance and affirmation, introducing post-empire imaginaries as figurations that connect the archives and repertoires of colonial nostalgia, postcolonial critique, post-imperial dreaming.

Indian Science Fiction

2020-10-15 Literary Criticism

Author : Suparno Banerjee
Release : 2020-10-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Indian Science Fiction written by Suparno Banerjee. This book was released on 2020-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study includes a larger scope previously not seen in any other critical work about Indian Science Fiction. The reader will get an overarching notion of Science Fiction in India—not just in one particular language. It is a detailed examination of the history of Science Fiction in India. The reader will receive a comprehensive idea of the emergence and development of Science Fiction in India over the last two centuries across various languages, including discussion on major trends, major texts, and major authors. A timeline of major events is included. It is a comparative examination of Science Fiction texts and films from multiple languages (e.g. Assamese, Bangla, English, Hindi, Marathi etc.)

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