Gothic science fiction 1980-2010

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These essays explore questions of genre, medical science, gender, biopower and capitalism, demonstrating the ways in which Gothic science fiction texts stage contemporary concerns around power, anxiety, resistance and capital.

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Full title :Gothic science fiction 1980-2010 / edited by Sara Wasson and Emily Alder.

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Publication Date:2014.

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Publisher(s):Liverpool University Press
Place of Publication:Liverpool
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

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Description:xix, 219 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

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ISBN:9781781380031, 1781380031, 9781846317071, 184631707X
oclc:ocn868082814
LC Classification:PR830.S35
Dewey Decimal:823.087609

In the zone: topologies of genre weirdness / Roger Luckhurst -- Zombie death drive: between gothic and science fiction / Fred Botting -- 'Death is irrelevant': gothic science fiction and the biopolitics of empire / Aris Mousoutzanis -- 'A butcher's shop where the meat still moved': gothic doubles, organ harvesting and human cloning / Sara Wasson -- Guillermo del Toro's Cronos, or the pleasures of impurity / Laurence Davies -- Infected with life: neo-supernaturalism and the gothic zombie / Gwyneth Peaty -- Ruined skin: gothic genetics and human identity in Stephen Donaldson's Gap cycle / Emily Alder -- The superheated, superdense prose of David Conway: gender and subjectivity beyond The starry wisdom / Mark P. Williams -- Spatialized ontologies: Toni Morrison's science fiction traces in gothic spaces / Jerrilyn McGregory -- The gothic punk milieu in popular narrative fictions / Nickianne Moody -- Gothic science fiction in the steampunk graphic novel: The league of extraordinary gentlemen / Laura Hilton.

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