Un-American Dreams
Un-American Dreams
Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Disimagined Community, and Bad Hope in the American Century
Ramirez, J. Jesse
Liverpool University Press
05/2022
264
Dura
Inglês
9781800854666
15 a 20 dias
IntroductionThe Uses of Pseudo-Apocalypse
Chapter 1The Last American: Earth Abides, Speculative Anthropology, and Settler Utopianism
Chapter 2The Revelation of Philip K. Dick
Chapter 3National Insecurity in Night of the Living Dead
Chapter 4How to Bring Your Kids Up Alien: Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy
Chapter 5Waiting for the Martians: Independence Day and the Second American Century
ConclusionPseudo-Apocalypse after the American Century
IntroductionThe Uses of Pseudo-Apocalypse
Chapter 1The Last American: Earth Abides, Speculative Anthropology, and Settler Utopianism
Chapter 2The Revelation of Philip K. Dick
Chapter 3National Insecurity in Night of the Living Dead
Chapter 4How to Bring Your Kids Up Alien: Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy
Chapter 5Waiting for the Martians: Independence Day and the Second American Century
ConclusionPseudo-Apocalypse after the American Century