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Contemporary speculative fiction / editor, M. Keith Booker, University of Arkansas.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical insights.
- Critical Insights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy fiction--History and criticism.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Science fiction--History and criticism.
- Science fiction.
- Speculative fiction--History and criticism.
- Speculative fiction.
- Young adult fiction--History and criticism.
- Young adult fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 263 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book provides readers with informative, in-depth essays that survey the critical conversation regarding speculative fiction, explore its cultural and historical contexts, and offer close and comparative readings of key texts. All of the essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited," along with endnotes.
- Contents:
- On contemporary speculative fiction
- Critical contexts. The critical reception of speculative fiction
- We both know they have to have a victor: a critical ecofeminist deconstruction of the battle between nature and culture in Suzanne Collins' Hunger games trilogy
- The games people play: speculative childhood and virtual culture from ender to hunger
- Feminists kick butt: feminism in the work of three urban fantasy authors
- Critical readings. Good, evil and the soul thereafter: whose dark materials in Pullman's His dark materials trilogy?
- Anglo-Saxonism in the Harry Potter series
- "A tall black boy": writing race in the world of Harry Potter
- Who's betting on The hunger games?: a case for young adult literature
- "Minister, said the girl, "we need to talk": China Miéville's Un lun dun as radical fantasy for children and young adults
- Prencks contra you: a poetry of horror, a poetry of hope in China Miéville's fantasy fictions (for young adults, &/or not)
- Postcolonial speculative fiction in Africa and its diaspora
- Black girlhood interrupted: race, imperial disruption, and adolescence in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight robber
- "My stories are quite tame": Margo Lanagan and the critics
- Young adult zombies: Daniel Waters' Generation dead as sociopolitical intervention
- The twenty-first-century fantasy film explosion: redefining a film genre.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781299311527
- 1299311520
- 9781429838368
- 1429838361
- OCLC:
- 832313968
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