{"product_id":"the-postworld-inbetween-utopia-and-dystopia-9780367537043","title":"The Postworld InBetween Utopia and Dystopia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays offers global perspectives on feminist utopia and dystopia in speculative literature, film, and art, working from a range of intersectional approaches to examine key works and genres in both their specific cultural context and a wider, global, epistemological, critical background.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe international, diverse contributions, including a Foreword by Gregory Claeys, draw upon posthumanism, speculative realism, speculative feminism, object-oriented ontology, new materialisms, and post-Anthropocene studies to propose alternative perspectives on gender, environment, as well as alternate futures and pasts rendered in fiction. Instead of binary divisions into utopia vs dystopia, the collection explores genres transcending this dichotomy, scrutinising the oeuvre of both established and emerging writers, directors, and critics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a rich and unique collection suitable for scholars and students studying feminist literature, media cultural studies, and w\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword: A Utopian\/Dystopian Spectrum: From Friendship to Fear, From Consent to Coercion \u003ci\u003eGregory Claeys\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUtopia and Dystopia in the 21st Century: Feminism, Intersectionality, and the Rejection of Binarism \u003ci\u003eKatarzyna Ostalska and Tomasz Fisiak\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Between Anthropocenic Dystopia And Ecological Utopia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: In Need of New Narratives: Feminist Ustopian Fiction Challenging the Anthropocene\u003ci\u003e Alessandra Boller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Post-Anthropocentric Ethics of Care in Turn-of-the-Century Fiction\u003ci\u003e Katarzyna Więckowska\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Environmental Dys\/Utopian Short Stories in Olga Tokarczuk’s \u003cem\u003eOpowiadania Bizarne Agnieszka Łowczanin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Materiality Of Posthuman Intersections And Speculative Discourse In Fiction And Art\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Critical Hope: Relationalities in 21st-Century Speculative Fiction and Art \u003ci\u003eDunja M. Mohr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: The Mesotopia: From Speculative Realism To Speculative Artistic Events \u003ci\u003eTristan Verran\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Neganthropic Architecture(s): Renee Gladman’s Speculative Reorientation of Science-Fiction \u003ci\u003eMałgorzata Myk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Between History And Sexual Politics: Alternate Herstories And Historical Alternatives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Temporal Politics: Entangling Fictions, Futures, and Histories in Contemporary and Historical Speculative Fiction \u003ci\u003eAdam Stock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Utopia of Intimacy: \"The Fear of the Flesh,\" Hyper-Sexualisation, Libidinal Exhaustion, and a New Sexual Politics beyond Oedipal (Wo)man \u003ci\u003eMark Featherstone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Do Cyborgs Dream of (Becoming) People? The Alternative Non-Human Self in Ian McEwan’s \u003ci\u003eMachines Like Me\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTomasz Dobrogoszcz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV: In-Between Feminist And Postfeminist Dys\/Utopias\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Twenty-First Century Gileads: Feminist Dystopian Fiction after Atwood—\u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Natural Way of Things\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Water Cure\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Testaments Fiona Tolan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: A Rage of Her Own: The Unpredictable Powers of Female Flight in Nnedi Okorafor’s \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Phoenix Svetlana Stefanova\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: Feminist Utopianism in the Posthuman Worlds of \u003ci\u003eLast Ones Left Alive\u003c\/i\u003e by Sarah Davis-Goff and \u003ci\u003eIndividutopia \u003c\/i\u003eby Joss Sheldon \u003ci\u003eKatarzyna Ostalska\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Developing the F-word: Representing Adolescent Womanhood and Race in Young-Adult Dystopian Novels \u003ci\u003eCristina Paravano\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart V: Beyond The Gender And Structural Binaries In Dys\/Utopian Cinema\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Alien Bodies, Alien Selves: \u003ci\u003eUnder the Skin\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and Beyond \u003ci\u003eTomasz Fisiak\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15: Dys\/utopian Narratives on the Screen: Beyond the Binaries in \u003ci\u003eChildren of Men\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLobster Emrah Atasoy \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16: Zombie Mayhem in Austen’s Hertfordshire—Intersectionality of Class and Gender Politics in Burr Steers’s \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice and Zombies Magdalena Cieślak\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 17: \"Where did all you zombies come from?\" Gendered Pasts, Presents and Futures in Robert Heinlein’s\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\"All You Zombies\" and the Film Adaptation \u003ci\u003ePredestination Emily Cox-Palmer-White\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017945809239,"sku":"9780367537043","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367537043.jpg?v=1750775164","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-postworld-inbetween-utopia-and-dystopia-9780367537043","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}