Gothic Science Fiction

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wasson, Sara

Contributor:

Alder, Emily

Series:

Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies

Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies ; v.41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic literature.

Science fiction--History and criticism.

Science fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.;)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool University Press 2011

Summary:

This collection explores 'Gothic sf' from 1980-2010. Ranging across narrative media and across genres, taking in horror, sf, the Gothic, the New Weird and more, essays examine questions of genre, medical science, gender, biopower and capitalism.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of illustrations

Foreword

Notes on contributors

Introduction

Part I: Redefining Genres

1 In the Zone: Topologies of Genre Weirdness

2 Zombie Death Drive: Between Gothic and Science Fiction

Part II: Biopower and Capital

3 ‘Death is Irrelevant’: Gothic Science Fiction and the Biopolitics of Empire

4 ‘A Butcher’s Shop where the Meat Still Moved’: Gothic Doubles, Organ Harvesting and Human Cloning

5 Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos, or the Pleasures of Impurity

6 Infected with Life: Neo-supernaturalism and the Gothic Zombie

7 Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap Cycle

Part III: Gender and Genre

8 The Superheated, Superdense Prose of David Conway: Gender and Subjectivity beyond The Starry Wisdom

9 Spatialized Ontologies: Toni Morrison’s Science Fiction Tracesin Gothic Spaces

10 The Gothic Punk Milieu in Popular Narrative Fictions

11 Gothic Science Fiction in the Steampunk Graphic Novel

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ISBN:

1-80085-767-5

OCLC:

1322066975