The postworld in-between utopia and dystopia : intersectional, feminist, and non-binary approaches in 21st-century speculative literature and culture / edited by Katarzyna Ostalska and Tomasz Fisiak.
Foreword: A utopian/dystopian spectrum : from fear to friendship, from consent to coercion / Gregory Claeys -- Introduction: Utopia and dystopia in the 21st century : feminism, intersectionality, and the rejection of binarism / Katarzyna Ostalska, Tomasz Fisiak -- Between anthropocenic dystopia and ecological utopia. In need of new narratives : feminist ustopian fiction challenging the anthropocene / Alessandra Boller -- Post-anthropocentric ethics of care in turn-of-the-century fiction / Katarzyna Więckowska -- Environmental dys/utopian short stories in Olga Tokarczuk's Opowiadania Bizarne / Agnieszka Łowczanin -- The materiality of posthuman intersections and speculative discourse in fiction and art. Critical hope : relationalities in 21st-century speculative fiction and art / Dunja M. Mohr -- The mesotopia : from speculative realism to speculative artistic events / Tristan Verran -- Neganthropic architecture(s) : Renee Gladman's speculative reorientation of science-fiction / Małgorzata Myk -- Between history and sexual politics : alternate herstories and historical alternatives. Temporal politics : entangling fictions, futures, and histories in contemporary and historical speculative fiction / Adam Stock -- Utopia of intimacy : "The fear of the flesh," hyper-sexualisation, libidinal exhaustion, and a new sexual politics beyond Oedipal (wo)man / Mark Featherstone -- Do cyborgs dream of (becoming) people? : the alternative non-human self in Ian McEwan's Machines like me / Tomasz Dobrogoszcz -- In-between feminist and postfeminist dys/utopias. Twenty-first century gileads : feminist dystopian fiction after Atwood -- The handmaid's tale, Natural way of things, The water cure, and The testaments / Fiona Tolan -- A rage of her own : the unpredictable powers of female flight in Nnedi Okorafor's The Book of Phoenix / Svetlana Stefanova -- Feminist utopianism in the posthuman worlds of Last ones left alive by Sarah Davis-Goff and Individutopia by Joss Sheldon / Katarzyna Ostalska -- Developing the F-word : representing adolescent womanhood and race in young-adult dystopian novels / Cristina Paravano -- Beyond the gender and structural binaries in dys/utopian cinema. Alien bodies, alien selves : Under the skin (2013) and beyond / Tomasz Fisiak -- Dys/utopian narratives on the screen : beyond the binaries in Children of men and The lobster / Emrah Atasoy -- Zombie mayhem in Austen's Hertfordshire -- intersectionality of class and gender politics in Burr Steers's Pride and prejudice and zombies / Magdalena Cieślak -- "Where did all you zombies come from?" : gendered pasts, presents and futures in Robert Heinlein's "All You Zombies" and the film adaptation Predestination / Emily Cox-Palmer-White.
Summary:
"This collection of essays offers global perspectives on feminist utopia and dystopia in speculative literature, film and art, working from a range of intersectional approaches to examine key works and genres in both their specific cultural context and a wider, global, epistemological, critical background. The international, diverse contributions draw upon Posthumanism, Speculative Realism, Speculative Feminism, object-oriented ontology, New Materialisms, and Post-Anthropocene Studies to propose alternative perspectives on gender, environment, as well as alternate futures and pasts rendered in fiction. Instead of binary divisions into utopia vs dystopia, the collection explores genres transcending this dichotomy, scrutinising the oeuvre of both established and emerging writers, directors and critics. This is a rich and unique collection suitable for scholars and students studying feminist literature, media cultural studies and Women's and Gender Studies"-- Provided by publisher.
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