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This volume offers innovative ways to think about speculation at a
time when anticipation of catastrophe in an apocalyptic mode is the
order of the day and shapes public discourse on a global scale. It
maps an interdisciplinary field of investigation: the chapters
interrogate hegemonic ways of shaping the present through
investments in the future, while also looking at speculative
practices that reveal transformative potential. The twelve
contributions explore concrete instances of envisioning the open
unknown and affirmative speculative potentials in history,
literature, comics, computer games, mold research, ecosystem
science and artistic practice.
Almost 20 years after the publication of Future Females: A Critical
Anthology, feminist science fiction pioneer Marleen S. Barr,
together with a talented crew of the field's established and
emerging theorists, reveal new critical insights in Future Females,
the Next Generation. This groundbreaking collection includes
contributors from across the globe who find effective venues for
imagining feminist thought experiments. A multinational perspective
runs through this innovative volume, focusing on the latest dynamic
trends in feminist science fiction. These include such issues as
race, gender, cyberfeminism, the media, and new writers in the
field. Future Females, the Next Generation, which establishes the
generational continuity characterizing a vibrant area of feminist
literary and cultural inquiry, boldly goes where no feminist
science fiction critical anthology has gone before.
This study of the work of the feminist science-fiction writer,
Joanna Russ, provides an introduction to the major feminist issues
relevant to her work and assesses its development. Although the
book deals principally with Russ's novels, it also examines her
short stories, as well as focusing on critically neglected texts.
Her work is placed in the context both of other feminist
speculative fiction writers and of traditional science fiction, and
there is an exploration of the specifically American myths that
Russ's fiction uses.
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