Contemporary speculative fiction / editor, M. Keith Booker, University of Arkansas.

"Speculative fiction has a long and progressive history, from the mythos of J.R.R. Tolkien to the radical alternativity of China Miéville and the ecofeminism of Suzanne Collins. The last twenty years has witnessed a surge in the critical reception of speculative and fiction, as more work continue to...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Critical insights.
Other Authors: Booker, M. Keith (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Publishing, Grey House Publishing, [2013]
Series:Critical insights.
Subjects:
Fantasy fiction > History and criticism.
Science fiction > History and criticism.
Speculative fiction > History and criticism.
Young adult fiction > History and criticism.
Fantasy fiction.
Science fiction.
Speculative fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:xxvii, 263 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
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.