Alien imaginations [electronic resource] : science fiction and tales of transnationalism / edited by Ulrike Küchler, Silja Maehl, and Graeme Stout ; foreword by Dame Gillian Beer.

"The figure of the alien is at the heart of science fiction and has helped us to understand and explore interactions with other cultures and the possibilities of life beyond both the modern configuration of the nation-state and the natural order of life on earth. Alien Imaginations brings together c...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Küchler, Ulrike (Editor) Maehl, Silja (Editor) Stout, Graeme (Editor)
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Bloomsbury Academy, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2015.
Subjects:	Science fiction films > History and criticism. Science fiction, American > History and criticism. Science fiction, English > History and criticism. Alienation (Social psychology) in motion pictures. Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
Online Access:	EBSCO eBooks: 2015 (EBSCO) eBook High School Collection (EBSCOhost): 2015 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	Alien Imaginations: Science Fiction and Tales of Transnationalism
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Preface / Dame Gillian Beer, University of Cambridge (UK)
Introduction / Ulrike Küchler, Freie Universitat Berlin (Germany), Silja Maehl, Brown University (US) and Graeme Stout, University of Minnesota (US)
Alien Art: Encounters with Otherworldly Places and Inter-medial Spaces / Ulrike Küchler
Space: The Final (Queer) Frontier. The Sexual Other in Eleanor Arnason's Ring of Swords / Emilie McCabe, University of Toronto (Canada)
Alienated Labor: William Gibson's Girls / Jen Caruso, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (US)
Assimilating Aliens: Imagining National Identity in Oskar Panizza's Operated Jew and Salomo Friedlander's Operated Goy / Joela Jacobs, University of Chicago (US)
Canned Foreign. Transnational Estrangement in Yoko Tawada / Silja Maehl
Migrants and the Dystopian State / Matthew Goodwin, University of Massachusetts Amherst (US)
Alienation, Hybridity, and Liminality in Ray Bradbury and Archie Weller / Celia Guimares Helene, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (Brazil)
The Interplanetary Logic of Late Capitalism: Global Warming, Forced Migration and Cyborg Futures in Philip K. Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Andrew Opitz, Hawaii Pacific University (US)
Control and Flow: Winterbottom's Migratory Cinema / Graeme Stout
Human Subjects/Alien Objects: Abjection and the Constructions of Race and Racism in District 9 / Andrew Butler, Canterbury Christ Church University (UK)
Was of the Worlds / John Mowitt, Leeds University (UK)
Meeting the Other: Cyborgs, Aliens & Beyond / Bianca Westermann, Ruhr Universitat, Bochum (Germany)
"This is I, Hamlet the Dane!" Hamlet's Migration and Integration in the Dramatic Theater as Cyberspace / Gerrit Roessler, University of Virginia (US).