{"product_id":"biopunk-worlds-of-paolo-bacigalupi-9783631768518","title":"Biopunk Worlds of Paolo Bacigalupi","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores literary techniques that allow science fiction literature to be a platform for activist interventions. The focus is on the body and food as storyworld existents in selected texts by Paolo Bacigalupi, whose writing is directed towards raising awareness of the environmental crisis. The book opens with a discussion of the position of science fiction as popular literature, genealogical debates, genre conventions of cyberpunk and biopunk, cognitive estrangement, metaphoric strategies and metonymic tactics. Then, it undertakes an analysis of Bacigalupi’s texts (\u003ci\u003eThe Windup Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, «Small Offerings», and «Fluted Girl», among others) in the context of such ecocritical concepts as hyperexuberance, Capitalocene, and the temporal dimension of the environmental catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eScience fiction as popular culture – Bacigalupi’s biopunk narratives – The body as a metonymy and metaphor – Food as Life\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51044439589207,"sku":"9783631768518","price":41.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783631768518.jpg?v=1750961616","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/biopunk-worlds-of-paolo-bacigalupi-9783631768518","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}