Out of this world : speculative fiction in translation from the Cold War to the new millennium / Rachel S. Cordasco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cordasco, Rachel S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speculative fiction--Translations into English--History and criticism.

Speculative fiction.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

xx, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Speculative fiction is a particularly international genre and an ever-increasing percentage of it is translated and published in English. Out of This World is the first book to explore this trend, highlighting novels, collections, and anthologies translated into English from fourteen different source languages since 1960. Each chapter includes text summaries, analysis, and references to secondary scholarship in an effort to reveal the diversity of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and magical realism available to Anglophone readers since the mid-twentieth century. Lay readers and scholars will discover much about Middle Eastern dystopias, Polish tales of alien encounters, French space-adventure novels, Japanese horror, and everything in between. With chapter introductions by authors, editors, translators, and scholars deeply familiar with speculative fiction in their respective source languages, Out of This World will add to the growing field of world speculative fiction studies and encourage current and future scholars to teach and write about speculative fiction in translation (SFT)"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Arabic-Language SFT

Chinese-Language SFT

Czech-Language SFT

Finnish-Language SFT

French-Language SFT

German-Language SFT

Hebrew-Language SFT

Italian-Language SFT

Japanese-Language SFT

Korean-Language SFT

Polish-Language SFT

Russian-Language SFT

Spanish-Language SFT

Swedish-Language SFT.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Cordasco, Rachel S. Out of this world

ISBN:

9780252043987

0252043987

OCLC:

1243352122

Publisher Number:

99989606441