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To seek out new worlds : science fiction and world politics / edited by Jutta Weldes.
Van Pelt Library PN3433.6 .S44 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction--History and criticism.
- Science fiction.
- Science fiction--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 230 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Palgrave Macmillan edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
- Summary:
- This volume explores the science fiction/world politics intertext. Through detailed analyses of such texts as "Blade Runner, "Stalker, "Star Trek, and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the chapters in this volume examine the complex and sometimes contradictory relations between world politics, both as discipline and as practice, and discourses of science fiction. Offering a novel combination of popular culture analysis with major theoretical and empirical issues concerning world politics, "To Seek Out New Worlds provides insights into the discursive constitution of both science fiction and world politics while highlighting the occasional challenges that the science fiction/world politics intertext launches at our common sense.
- Contents:
- 1 Popular Culture, Science Fiction, and World Politics: Exploring Intertextual Relations / Jutta Weldes 1
- Part I World Politics in Outer Space
- 2 "To know him was to love him. Not to know him was to love him from afar": Diplomacy in Star Trek / Iver B. Neumann 31
- 3 Bumpy Space: Imperialism and Resistance in Star Trek: The Next Generation / Naeem Inayatullah 53
- Part II Aliens Among US
- 4 Aliens, Alien Nations, and Alienation in American Political Economy and Popular Culture / Ronnie D. Lipschutz 79
- 5 Demon Diasporas: Confronting the Other and the Other-Worldly in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel / Patricia Molloy 99
- 6 Forbidden Places, Tempting Spaces, and the Politics of Desire: On Stalker and Beyond / Aida A. Hozic 123
- Part III Future Worlds, Alternative Imaginings
- 7 Representation is Futile? American Anti-Collectivism and the Borg / Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, Daniel H. Nexon 143
- 8 The Problem of the "World and Beyond": Encountering "The Other" in Science Fiction / Geoffrey Whitehall 169
- 9 Feminist Futures: Science Fiction, Utopia, and the Art of Possibilities in World Politics / Neta C. Crawford 195.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 031229557X
- 1403960585
- OCLC:
- 50503300
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