| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 285 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; [37] |
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Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 37.
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| Contents |
Introduction, Queer universes / Wendy Gay Pearson, Veronica Hollinger, and Joan Gordon -- Alien cryptographies : the view from queer / Wendy Gay Pearson -- War machine, time machine / Nicola Griffith and Kelley Eskridge -- Sextrapolation in New Wave science fiction / Rob Latham -- Towards a queer genealogy of sf / Wendy Gay Pearson -- Sexuality and the statistical imaginary in Samuel R. Delany's Trouble on Triton / Guy Davidson -- Stray penetration and heteronormative systems crash : queering Gibson / Graham J. Murphy -- 'Something like a fiction' : speculative intersections of sexuality and technology / Veronica Hollinger -- 'And how many souls do you have?' : technologies of perverse desire and queer sex in science fiction erotica / Patricia Melzer -- BDSMSF(QF) : sadomasochistic readings of Québécois women's science fiction / Sylvie Bérard -- 'Happy that it's here' : an interview with Nalo Hopkinson / Nancy Johnston -- Queering nature : close encounters with the alien in ecofeminist science fiction / Helen Merrick -- Queering the coming race? : a utopian historical imperative / De Witt Douglas Kilgore |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-271) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Science fiction -- History and criticism.
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Queer theory.
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Homosexuality and literature.
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Gay people in literature
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Science Fiction & Fantasy.
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Gays in literature
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Homosexuality and literature
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Queer theory
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Science fiction
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Englisch
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Science-Fiction-Literatur
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Homosexualität Motiv
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pearson, Wendy G., editor.
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Hollinger, Veronica, editor.
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Gordon, Joan, 1947- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781846313882 |
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1846313880 |
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9781781388174 |
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1781388172 |
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