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Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction de Sarah Falcus

Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life

Editat de Sarah Falcus, Maricel Oró-Piqueras
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 aug 2024
Focusing on the contemporary period, this book brings together critical age studies and contemporary science fiction to establish the centrality of age and ageing in dystopian, speculative and science-fiction imaginaries. Analysing texts from Europe, North America and South Asia, as well as television programmes and films, the contributions range from essays which establish genre-based trends in the representation of age and ageing, to very focused studies of particular texts and concerns. As a whole, the volume probes the relationship between speculative/science fiction and our understanding of what it is to be a human in time: the time of our own lives and the times of both the past and the future.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350230705
ISBN-10: 1350230707
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 15 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

First collection specifically bringing together critical ageing studies and speculative/science fiction.

Notă biografică

Sarah Falcus is a Reader in Contemporary Literature at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She is interested in the intersection of ageing studies and literary studies, and is the co-author (with Katsura Sako) of Contemporary Narratives of Dementia: Ethics, Ageing, Politics (Routledge, 2019). She has published in journals such as Feminist Review, Women: A Cultural Review and Ageing and Society. She co-edited a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies (2018), focussed on the intersection of English Studies and Ageing Studies. Her current work centres on two main areas: children's literature and ageing; and ageing/the lifecourse in science and speculative fiction. She is the Primary Collaborator on the project 'Ageing and Illness in British and Japanese Children's Picturebooks 1950-2000: Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives', funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. She is the co-director of the Dementia and Cultural Narrative Network.Maricel Oró-Piqueras is Associate Professor at the Department of English and Linguistics, Universitat de Lleida, Spain. She has been a member of research group Dedal-Lit since it started working on the representation of fictional images of ageing and old age in 2002. Her research interests include ageing and old age in contemporary fiction and representations of gender and ageing in film and TV series. She has co-edited two collections of essays entitled Serializing Age: Aging and Old Age in TV Series (2015, with Anita Wohlmann) and Narratives of Mentorship: Rediscovering (Age)ing (2019, with Núria Casado-Gual and Emma Domínguez-Rué) and a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies with Sarah Falcus (2018). Moreover, she has published her research in national and international journals such as English Studies, The Gerontologist and Journal of Aging Studies.

Cuprins

Introduction: Intersections between Age Studies and Science and Speculative FictionMaricel Oró-Piqueras and Sarah Falcus Chapter 1Remaking Ourselves: Age, Death and Techno-bodies in the Fiction of Transhumanist ImmortalityTeresa Botelho Chapter 2 Ageing and Youthing: Portrayals of Progression and Regression in Science Fiction Film and TVPeter Goggin and Ulla Kriebernegg Chapter 3Ageing and Generation in Recent Narratives of LongevitySarah Falcus and Maricel Oró-Piqueras Chapter 4Biological Slaves: Discardable Bodies in DystopiaMaria Aline Ferreira Chapter 5Prejudice Against Our Feared Future Self: Contemporary Perspectives on Ageing in European Dystopian LiteratureAleksandra Pogonska-Baranowska Chapter 6Ageing and Age-Based Extinction in Twentieth- and Early-Twenty-First-Century Speculative and Science Fiction: William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson's Logan's Run (1967) and Christopher Buckley's Boomsday (2007)Stella Achilleos Chapter 7'Whatever comes after human progress': Transhumanism, Antihumanism, and theAbsence of Queer Ecology inLidia Yuknavitch's The Book of JoanSean Seeger Chapter 8A Spectral Future: Dementia and the Nonhuman in Marjorie PrimeMichael Hooper Chapter 9A Cure for Ageing: Digital Cloning as Utopian End-of-life Care in the 'San Junipero' Episode of Black MirrorEszter Ureczky Chapter 10Ageing, Anachronism and Perception in Dystopian Narrative: The Case of Margaret Atwood's 'Torching the Dusties'Susan Watkins Chapter 11Playing with Possibilities: Ursula Le Guin and Speculations on the Human Condition: An Anocritical Approach Roberta Maierhofer