Age and ageing in contemporary speculative and science fiction / edited by Sarah Falcus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Falcus, Sarah, editor.

Oro-Piqueras, Maricel, editor.

Series:

Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life.

Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maturation.

Post-colonial literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

System Details:

text file

HTML/PDF

Summary:

Focusing on the contemporary period, this book brings together critical age studies and contemporary science fiction to establish the centrality of age and ageing in dystopian, speculative and science-fiction imaginaries. Analysing texts from Europe, North America and South Asia, as well as television programmes and films, the contributions range from essays which establish genre-based trends in the representation of age and ageing, to very focused studies of particular texts and concerns. As a whole, the volume probes the relationship between speculative/science fiction and our understanding of what it is to be a human in time: the time of our own lives and the times of both the past and the future..

Contents:

Introduction: Intersections between Age Studies and Science and Speculative Fiction Maricel Oro-Piqueras and Sarah Falcus Chapter 1 Remaking Ourselves: Age, Death and Techno-bodies in the Fiction of Transhumanist Immortality Teresa Botelho Chapter 2 Ageing and Youthing: Portrayals of Progression and Regression in Science Fiction Film and TV Peter Goggin and Ulla Kriebernegg Chapter 3 Ageing and Generation in Recent Narratives of Longevity Sarah Falcus and Maricel Oro-Piqueras Chapter 4 Biological Slaves: Discardable Bodies in Dystopia Maria Aline Ferreira Chapter 5 Prejudice Against Our Feared Future Self: Contemporary Perspectives on Ageing in European Dystopian Literature Aleksandra Pogonska-Baranowska Chapter 6 Ageing and Age-Based Extinction in Twentieth- and Early-Twenty-First-Century Speculative and Science Fiction: William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson's Logan's Run (1967) and Christopher Buckley's Boomsday (2007) Stella Achilleos Chapter 7 'Whatever comes after human progress': Transhumanism, Antihumanism, and the Absence of Queer Ecology inLidia Yuknavitch's The Book of Joan Sean Seeger Chapter 8 A Spectral Future: Dementia and the Nonhuman in Marjorie Prime Michael Hooper Chapter 9 A Cure for Ageing: Digital Cloning as Utopian End-of-life Care in the 'San Junipero' Episode of Black Mirror Eszter Ureczky Chapter 10 Ageing, Anachronism and Perception in Dystopian Narrative: The Case of Margaret Atwood's 'Torching the Dusties' Susan Watkins Chapter 11 Playing with Possibilities: Ursula Le Guin and Speculations on the Human Condition: An Anocritical Approach Roberta Maierhofer.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781350230682

1350230685

9781350230699

1350230693

9781350230675

1350230677

OCLC:

1354206192