Culture’s Futures

Eric Aronoff is an Associate Professor of Humanities in the Residential College of Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University, USA. His areas of  expertise are modernist American literature and criticism, anthropology and literature, and theories of culture, as well as science fiction. Eric also has strong research interests in  literature and the environment.  His work has appeared in journals such as MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Genre and ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance. Eric’s first book, Composing Cultures: Modernism, American Literary Studies and the Problem of Culture was published in 2013.

• Chapter 1: Introduction:  Science Fiction, Anthropology and the Problem of Culture.- Chapter 2: Aliens, Anthropologists, and American Indians:  Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, Modernist Anthropology and the Idea of Culture.- Chapter 3: Well-Wrought Cultures and Carrier Bags: Forms of Culture in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness and Always Coming Home.- Chapter 4:  Captivity, Conversion, Culture:  Octavia E. Butler’s Genre-tic Engineering of Ethnography and Science Fiction in the Xenogenesis Trilogy.- Chapter 5: Resisting Culture:  Culture and/as Sovereignty in Indigenous Futurisms.- Chapter 6: Coda: Culture’s Futures.