Science Fiction and Anticipation

Utopias, Dystopias and Time Travel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Science Fiction and Anticipation: Utopias, Dystopias and Time Travel presents ten chapters discussing themes related to time travel, utopias, and dystopias in science fiction novels published in America and Europe between the 18th and 20th century. These themes include social progress, freedom and human rights, technological advances, and the issues of ethics, racism, sexism, censorship, and slavery. The contributors analyze novels such as The Year 2440 published in 1771, Paris in the Twentieth Century written by Jules Verne, Blake; or, The Huts of America by Martin Robinson Delany, The Amphibian Man by Alexander Belyaev, Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, Ashes, Ashes by René Barjavel, The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster, Morel’s Invention by Adolfo Bioy Casares, and writers of Spanish, Argentinian, English, and French fictions such as George Orwell, Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg and Leopoldo Antonio Lugones Argüello. This book notably presents their sources and influence, the accuracy of their predictions, and their relevance in our very unstable world.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-08-12
Mått157 x 237 x 21 mm
Vikt526 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor262
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666918137

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PrefaceIntroductionChapter One: Mercier’s The Year 2440, a Dream and a “Thought Experiment”Bernard MontoneriChapter Two: Origins of Hard Science Fiction: An ApproachFernando Darío González GruesoChapter Three: Beyond Utopia: The Dystopian Capitalist Society in Paris in the Twentieth Century (1863)Murielle El HajjChapter Four: With Second Sight and Afro-pessimism: The Im/Possibility of Black Utopia in Martin R. Delany’s Blake; or, The Huts of AmericaMichaela KeckChapter Five: The Phenomenon of Human-Animal Hybridization in Russian Science Fiction of the 20th CenturyAnna ToomChapter Six: Barjavel, Ravage: roman extraordinaire (1943)Bernard Montoneri and Murielle El HajjChapter Seven: Dystopia as the First-person World: Rereading E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops as a Pandemic Novel of a Global SocietyAkiyoshi SuzukiChapter Eight: Orwellian Themes and Echoes in Today’s World—A PerspectiveBeena GiridharanChapter Nine: The 19th Century American Socialism: A Vision of A Future Ut

This book is a landmark work of literary studies. Science fiction, as the name implies, usually evokes an impression of a scientific aspect that is far removed from human nature, but this book suggests that this notion is not accurate. In particular, Chapter 3, which deals with dystopian fiction, addresses issues of human rights and discrimination against African Americans. This book offers a new perspective on the field of literary studies.