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Speculative Epistemologies 2021 - An Eccentric Account of SF from the 1960s to the Present (Paperback)
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Speculative Epistemologies 2021 - An Eccentric Account of SF from the 1960s to the Present (Paperback)
Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies, 70
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Speculative Epistemologies is about truth effects in sf, which
stands for both science fiction and speculative fiction. It
examines six narratives, one from each decade from the 1960s to the
2010s, that challenge dominant assumptions about the normal, the
possible, and the real. It asks what the patterns of overlap and
interference generated by texts located in border territories that
make their identification as sf problematic, and sometimes
controversial, can reveal about the dynamics of sf's multiple
subcultures (e.g. professionals, academics, and fans); the
complexity of the genre's communities of practice and their routes
of production, distribution, and reception; and the genre's
shifting position within a broadly conceived field of literary and
cultural production. The "speculative epistemologies" in these
stories are counter-hegemonic ways of knowing, ways of imagining
knowing differently, and the focus of this study is their effect on
the formation of identities and communities. Combining the methods
of genre theory, reception theory, and the sociology of cultural
production, the readings of these six narratives trace a history of
sf's increasingly feminist, racially and ethnically diverse,
philosophically ambitious, and politically engaged character from
the 1960s to the present.
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