Rob Latham, Science fiction criticism, an anthology of essential writings, Bloomsbury, 2017
Ce livre est une contribution importante à l’étude de la science-fiction. Il s’agit d’une anthologie des grands textes consacrés à cet imaginaire depuis plus d’un siècle. Rob Latham est l’auteur de plusieurs livres sur le sujet et est responsable de la revue de référence Science Fiction Studies. Les textes de cette anthologie sont rédigés par des auteurs de science-fiction, et par des universitaires. Les étudiants y trouveront une introduction pertinente et pourront s’orienter vers la lecture complète de certaines œuvres après en avoir consulté de larges extraits. La science-fiction a suscité de multiples analyses et cette anthologie permet d’avoir une approche pertinente dans la perspective de développer une bibliographie sur la critique du genre.
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Part I: Definition and Boundaries
1. Editorial: A New
Sort of Magazine, Hugo Gernsback
2. Preface to The Scientific Romances of H.G.
Wells, H.G. Wells
3. On the Writing of Speculative Fiction, Robert A. Heinlein
4. What Do You Mean: Science? Fiction? Judith Merril
5. Preface to Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk
Anthology, Bruce Sterling
6. Cybernetic Deconstructions: Cyberpunk and Postmodernism, Veronica Hollinger
7. The Many Deaths of Science Fiction: A Polemic, Roger Luckhurst
8. On Defining SF, or Not: Genre Theory, SF, and History, John Rieder
Recommended Further Reading
Part II: Structure and Form
9. Which Way to Inner Space? J.G. Ballard
10. About 5,750 Words, Samuel R. Delany
11. On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre, Darko Suvin
12. The Absent Paradigm: An Introduction to the Semiotics of
Science Fiction, Marc Angenot
13. Reading SF as a Mega-Text, Damien Broderick
14. Time Travel and the Mechanics of Narrative, David Wittenberg
Recommended Further Reading
Part III: Ideology and World View
15. Mutation or Death! John B. Michel
16. The Imagination of Disaster, Susan Sontag
17. The Image of Women in Science Fiction, Joanna Russ
18. Progress versus Utopia; or, Can We Imagine the Future? Fredric Jameson
19. Science Fiction and Critical Theory, Carl Freedman
20. Alien Cryptographies: The View from Queer, Wendy Pearson
21. The Women History Doesn’t See: Recovering Mid-Century
Women’s SF as a Literature of Social Critique, Lisa Yaszek
Recommended Further Reading
Part IV: The Non-Human
22. Author’s Introduction to Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
23. The Android and the Human, Philip K. Dick
24. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist
Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century, Donna Haraway
25. Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers, N. Katherine Hayles
26. The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in a
Post-Human Era, Vernor Vinge
27. Aliens in the Fourth Dimension, Gwyneth Jones
28. Technofetishism and the Uncanny Desires of A.S.F.R. (alt.sex.fetish.robots), Allison de Fren
29. Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and Human-Animal
Studies, Sherryl Vint
Recommended Further Reading
Part V: Race and the Legacy of Colonialism
30. Science Fiction and Empire, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay
31. Further Considerations on Afrofuturism, Kodwo Eshun
32. Indigenous Scientific Literacies in Nalo Hopkinson’s
Ceremonial Worlds, Grace Dillon
33. Biotic Invasions: Ecological Imperialism in New Wave
Science Fiction, Rob Latham
34. Alien/Asian: Imaging the Racialized Future, Stephen Hong Sohn
35. A Report from Planet Midnight, Nalo Hopkinson
36. Future Histories and Cyborg Labor: Reading Borderlands
Science Fiction after NAFTA, Lysa Rivera
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