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This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their
representation in American science fiction, from the
nineteenth-century through to the twenty-first, and across a number
of forms including literature and film. Haslam explores the reasons
why SF provides such a rich medium for both the preservation of and
challenges to dominant mythologies of gender and race. Defining SF
linguistically and culturally, the study argues that this mode is
not only able to illuminate the cultural and social histories of
gender and race, but so too can it intervene in those histories,
and highlight the ruptures present within them. The volume moves
between material history and the linguistic nature of SF fantasies,
from the specifics of race and gender at different points in
American history to larger analyses of the socio-cultural functions
of such identity categories. SF has already become central to
discussions of humanity in the global capitalist age, and is
increasingly the focus of feminist and critical race studies; in
combining these earlier approaches, this book goes further, to
demonstrate why SF must become central to our discussions of
identity writ large, of the possibilities and failings of the human
-past, present, and future. Focusing on the interplay of whiteness
and its various 'others' in relation to competing gender
constructs, chapters analyze works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary E.
Bradley Lane, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Philip Francis Nowlan, George
S. Schuyler and the Wachowskis, Frank Herbert, William Gibson, and
Octavia Butler. Academics and students interested in the study of
Science Fiction, American literature and culture, and Whiteness
Studies, as well as those engaged in critical gender and race
studies, will find this volume invaluable.
This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their
representation in American science fiction, from the
nineteenth-century through to the twenty-first, and across a number
of forms including literature and film. Haslam explores the reasons
why SF provides such a rich medium for both the preservation of and
challenges to dominant mythologies of gender and race. Defining SF
linguistically and culturally, the study argues that this mode is
not only able to illuminate the cultural and social histories of
gender and race, but so too can it intervene in those histories,
and highlight the ruptures present within them. The volume moves
between material history and the linguistic nature of SF fantasies,
from the specifics of race and gender at different points in
American history to larger analyses of the socio-cultural functions
of such identity categories. SF has already become central to
discussions of humanity in the global capitalist age, and is
increasingly the focus of feminist and critical race studies; in
combining these earlier approaches, this book goes further, to
demonstrate why SF must become central to our discussions of
identity writ large, of the possibilities and failings of the human
-past, present, and future. Focusing on the interplay of whiteness
and its various 'others' in relation to competing gender
constructs, chapters analyze works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary E.
Bradley Lane, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Philip Francis Nowlan, George
S. Schuyler and the Wachowskis, Frank Herbert, William Gibson, and
Octavia Butler. Academics and students interested in the study of
Science Fiction, American literature and culture, and Whiteness
Studies, as well as those engaged in critical gender and race
studies, will find this volume invaluable.
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Tarzan of the Apes (Paperback)
Edgar Rice Burroughs; Edited by Jason Haslam
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A central figure in American popular culture, Tarzan first came
swinging through the jungle in the pages of a pulp-fiction magazine
in 1912, and subsequently appeared in the novel that went on to
spawn numerous film, full-length cartoon, and theatrical
adaptations. The infant Tarzan, lost on the coast of West Africa,
is adopted by an ape-mother and grows up to become a model of
physical strength and natural prowess, and eventually leader of his
tribe. When he encounters a group of white Europeans, and rescues
Jane Porter from a marauding ape, he finds love, and must choose
between the values of civilization and the jungle. Jason Haslam's
engaging introduction situates the novel not only in the pulp
fiction industry, but also against the backdrop of adventure
stories, European exploration in Africa, and the debates over
nature versus civilization. This edition also features an
up-to-date bibliography, chronology, and helpful notes as well as
appendices that include selections of letters from readers to the
editor of The All-Story magazine where the novel first appeared,
histories of feral children, African explorers, and American
advocates of self-reliance.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
A new critical companion to the Gothic traditions of American
Culture This new Companion surveys the traditions and conventions
of the dark side of American culture - its repressed memories, its
anxieties and panics, its fears and horrors, its obsessions and
paranoias. Featuring new critical essays by established and
emerging academics from a range of national backgrounds, this
collection offers new discussions and analyses of canonical and
lesser-known texts in literature and film, television, photography,
and video games. Its scope ranges from the earliest manifestations
of American Gothic traditions in frontier narratives and colonial
myths, to its recent responses to contemporary global events. Key
Features Features original critical writing by established and
emerging scholars Surveys the full range of American Gothic, from
its earliest texts to 21st Century works Includes critical analyses
of American Gothic in new media and technologies Will establish new
benchmarks for the critical understanding of American Gothic
traditions
Ever since Michel Foucault's highly regarded work on prisons and
confinement in the 1970s, critical examination of the forerunners
to the prison - slavery, serfdom, and colonial confinements - has
been rare. However, these institutions inform and participate in
many of the same ideologies that the prison enforces. Captivating
Subjects is a collection of essays that fills several crucial gaps
in the critical examination of the relations between Western
state-sanctioned confinement, identity, nation, and literature.
Editors Jason Haslam and Julia M. Wright have brought together an
esteemed group of international scholars to examine
nineteenth-century writings by prisoners, slaves, and other
captives, tracing some of the continuities among the varieties of
captivity and their crucial relationship to post-Enlightenment
subjectivities. This volume is the first sustained examination of
the ways in which the diverse kinds of confinement intersect with
Western ideologies of subjectivity, investigating the modern
nation-state's reliance on captivity as a means of consolidating
notions of individual and national sovereignty. It details the
specific historical and cultural practices of confinement and their
relations to each other and to punishment through a range of
national contexts.
The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope brings together a
number of winners of the Polanyi Prize in Literature - a group
whose research constitutes a diversity of methodological approaches
to the study of culture - to examine the rich but often troubled
association between the concepts of the public, the intellectual
(both the person and the condition), culture, and hope. The
contributors probe the influence of intellectual life on the public
sphere by reflecting on, analyzing, and re-imagining social and
cultural identity. The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope
reflects on the challenging and often vexed work of intellectualism
within the public sphere by exploring how cultural materials - from
foundational Enlightenment writings to contemporary, populist media
spectacles - frame intellectual debates within the clear and
ever-present gaze of the public writ large. These serve to
illuminate how past cultures can shed light on present and future
issues, as well as how current debates can reframe our approaches
to older subjects.
Prisons and Prisoners is the autobiography of aristocratic
suffragette Constance Lytton. In it, she details her militant
actions in the struggle to gain the vote for women, including her
masquerade and imprisonment as the working-class "Jane Warton." As
a member of a well-known political family (and grand-daughter of
the famous novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton), Lytton's arrests
garnered much attention at the time, but she was treated
differently than other suffragettes because of her class-when other
suffragettes were forcibly fed while on hunger strikes, she was
released. "Jane Warton," however, was forcibly fed, an act that
permanently damaged Lytton's health, but that also became a
singular moment in the history of women's and prisoner's rights.
This Broadview edition includes news articles, reviews, and
illustrations on women's suffrage from the periodicals of the time.
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