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Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction (Hardcover)
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Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies, 58
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Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction examines fantastic
representations of sport in science fiction, both cataloguing this
almost entirely unexamined literary tradition and arguing that the
reason for its neglect reflects a more widespread social suspicion
of the athletic body as monstrous. Combining scholarship of
monstrosity with a biopolitically focused philosophy of embodiment,
this work plumbs the depths of our abjection of the athletic body
and challenges us to reconsider sport as an intersectional space.
In this latter endeavour it contradicts the image presented by both
the most dystopian films such as Deathrace and Rollerball as well
as social criticism of sport that limits its focus to an
essentially violent masculinity. The book traces an alternative
tradition of sport sf through authors as diverse as Arthur C.
Clarke, Steven Barnes, and Joan Slonczewski, exploring the way the
intersectional categories of gender, race, and age in these works
are negotiated in, for example, a solar wind sailing race or
futuristic anti-gravity boxing. These complex athletic bodies
display the social mobility that sport allows and challenge us to
acknowledge our own monstrously animal bodies and our place in a
"cycle of living and dying."
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