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Ann Leckie’s "Ancillary Justice": A Critical Companion: Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon

Autor David M. Higgins
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 noi 2022
This book argues that Ann Leckie’s novel Ancillary Justice offers a devastating rebuke to the political, social, cultural, and economic injustices of American imperialism in the post 9/11 era. Following an introductory overview, the study offers four chapters that examine key themes central to the novel: gender, imperial economics, race, and revolutionary agency. Ancillary Justice’s exploration of these four themes, and the way it reveals how these issues are all fundamentally entangled with the problem of contemporary imperial power, warrants its status as a canonical work of science fiction for the twenty-first century. The book concludes with a brief interview with Leckie herself touching on each of the topics examined during the preceding chapters.   
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783031182600
ISBN-10: 303118260X
Pagini: 92
Ilustrații: XI, 92 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2022
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1.Introduction.- 2.“She Was Probably Male” Gender and Embodiment.- 3. “Luxury Always Comes at Someone Else’s Expense” The Economics of Empire.- 4.“You Have to be Human to be Radchaai” Race, Citizenship, and Imperial Personhood.- 5.“Save it for When it will Make a Difference” Cynical Reason, Agency, and the Politics of Revolution.- 6.Conclusion: Mercy, or the Sword?

Recenzii

“I am a huge fan of Leckie’s IMPERIAL RADCH trilogy and I found Higgins’s Companion an excellent read … for its parallel introduction to critical postcolonial questions about the workings of empire in the twenty-first century.” (Veronica Hollinger, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 50, 2023)

Notă biografică

David M. Higgins is a Senior Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and he is the Chair of the English Department at Inver Hills College in Minnesota, where he teaches classes on science fiction, graphic novels, American literature, and composition. He is the author of Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood, which won the 2021 Science Fiction Research Association Book Award.  

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"From racial capitalism and neo-imperialism to gender expression and revolutionary agency, Higgins writes with nuance and generosity to all potential readers about the real-world conditions that lie just under the surface of Leckie's far-future space opera. A big-hearted masterwork of accessible criticism, this is a book that you will want to share with students and colleagues alike."
Rebekah Sheldon, Associate Professor of English, Indiana University, Bloomington, and author of The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe (2016)
"David Higgins gives us a masterful analysis of Ancillary Justice, the first novel in Leckie's trilogy, deftly tracing the book's major themes, together with its unusual use of language, and showing how the novel helps us think about the most urgent concerns of our present moment."
Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University.
This book argues that Ann Leckie’s novel Ancillary Justice offers a devastating rebuke to the political, social, cultural, and economic injustices of American imperialism in the post 9/11 era. Following an introductory overview, the study offers four chapters that examine key themes central to the novel: gender, imperial economics, race, and revolutionary agency. Ancillary Justice’s exploration of these four themes, and the way it reveals how these issues are all fundamentally entangled with the problem of contemporary imperial power, warrants its status as a canonical work of science fiction for the twenty-first century. The book concludes with a brief interview with Leckie herself touching on each of the topics examined during the preceding chapters.   

David M. Higgins is a Senior Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and he is the Chair of the English Department at Inver Hills College in Minnesota, where he teaches classes on science fiction, graphic novels, American literature, and composition. He is the author of Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood, which won the 2021 Science Fiction Research Association Book Award. 

Caracteristici

Advances scholarship of one of the most significant works of literary science fiction from the early 21st century Includes an interview with Ann Leckie Addresses the novel’s engagement with gender studies, critical race studies, and American studies