Queer Universes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Queer Universes write by Wendy G. Pearson. This book was released on 2008. Queer Universes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of humanity itself. In an era when a religious authority can declare lesbians antihuman while some nations legalise same-sex marriage and are becoming increasingly tolerant of a variety of non-normative sexualities, it is hardly surprising that science fiction, in turn, takes up the task of imagining a diverse range of queer and not-so-queer futures. The essays in Queer Universes investigate both contemporary and historical practices of representing sexualities and genders in science fiction literature. Queer Universes opens with Wendy Pearson's award-winning essay on reading sf queerly and goes on to include discussions about 'sextrapolation' in New Wave science fiction, 'stray penetration' in William Gibson's cyberpunk fiction, the queering of nature in ecofeminist science fiction, and the radical challenges posed to conventional science fiction in the work of important writers such as Samuel R. Delany, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Joanna Russ. In addition, Queer Universes offers an interview with Nalo Hopkinson and a conversation about queer lives and queer fictions by authors Nicola Griffith and Kelley Eskridge.
Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction
Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction write by . This book was released on 2010. Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies ; [37])
Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies ; [37]) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies ; [37]) write by Veronica Hollinger. This book was released on . Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies ; [37]) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Old Futures
Old Futures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old Futures write by Alexis Lothian. This book was released on 2018-09-25. Old Futures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Finalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, presented by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Traverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital media Old Futures explores the social, political, and cultural forces feminists, queer people, and people of color invoke when they dream up alternative futures as a way to imagine transforming the present. Lothian shows how queer possibilities emerge when we practice the art of speculation: of imagining things otherwise than they are and creating stories from that impulse. Queer theory offers creative ways to think about time, breaking with straight and narrow paths toward the future laid out for the reproductive family, the law-abiding citizen, and the believer in markets. Yet so far it has rarely considered the possibility that, instead of a queer present reshaping the ways we relate to past and future, the futures imagined in the past can lead us to queer the present. Narratives of possible futures provide frameworks through which we understand our present, but the discourse of “the” future has never been a singular one. Imagined futures have often been central to the creation and maintenance of imperial domination and technological modernity; Old Futures offers a counterhistory of works that have sought—with varying degrees of success—to speculate otherwise. Examining speculative texts from the 1890s to the 2010s, from Samuel R. Delany to Sense8, Lothian considers the ways in which early feminist utopias and dystopias, Afrofuturist fiction, and queer science fiction media have insisted that the future can and must deviate from dominant narratives of global annihilation or highly restrictive hopes for redemption. Each chapter chronicles some of the means by which the production and destruction of futures both real and imagined takes place: through eugenics, utopia, empire, fascism, dystopia, race, capitalism, femininity, masculinity, and many kinds of queerness, reproduction, and sex. Gathering stories of and by populations who have been marked as futureless or left out by dominant imaginaries, Lothian offers new insights into what we can learn from efforts to imaginatively redistribute the future.
Bodies of Tomorrow
Bodies of Tomorrow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bodies of Tomorrow write by Sherryl Vint. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Bodies of Tomorrow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bodies of Tomorrow argues for the importance of challenging visions of humanity in the future that overlook our responsibility as embodied beings connected to a material world.
