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Building Bridges between Cultures in Ian McDonald's Science Fiction
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Ian McDonald is a celebrated writer within the science-fiction community whose rich and urgent body of works, span over a quarter of a century. The author claims McDonald's work functions as vital, troubling allegories, which both refuse the Orientalist euphemizing of colonial atrocities, while still at the same time envisioning a transformative global alterity, seeking an ethical and political embrace of systematically silenced subaltern voices in the neoliberal world-system. The book follows McDonald as the globe-trotting writer travels from Ireland to Kenya, to India, to Brazil, to Turkey, to a proliferating multiverse and beyond. Along the way, the author analyzes McDonald's science fiction as a salient contribution to the flourishing cosmopolitan literature of postcolonial developing nations at the crossroads of the global imaginary.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
244
Release Date:
2025-09-04
Publication Date:
2025-09-04
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1666956805
ISBN13:
9781666956801
Weight:
510 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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