Biopunk Worlds of Paolo Bacigalupi

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Del 5 i serien English Literature and Culture in Context

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Beskrivning

This book explores literary techniques that allow science fiction literature to be a platform for activist interventions. The focus is on the body and food as storyworld existents in selected texts by Paolo Bacigalupi, whose writing is directed towards raising awareness of the environmental crisis. The book opens with a discussion of the position of science fiction as popular literature, genealogical debates, genre conventions of cyberpunk and biopunk, cognitive estrangement, metaphoric strategies and metonymic tactics. Then, it undertakes an analysis of Bacigalupi’s texts (The Windup Girl, «Small Offerings», and «Fluted Girl», among others) in the context of such ecocritical concepts as hyperexuberance, Capitalocene, and the temporal dimension of the environmental catastrophe.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-03-29
Mått:148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt:324 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:English Literature and Culture in Context
Antal sidor:192
Upplaga:19001
Förlag:Peter Lang AG
ISBN:9783631768518

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Aleksandra Mochocka, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland. She teaches and researches science fiction, transmedia narratives, and non-digital games.