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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: a utopian/dystopian spectrum: from friendship to fear, from consent to coercion -- Utopia and dystopia in the 21st century: feminism, intersectionality, and the rejection of binarism -- PART I: Between Anthropocenic dystopia and ecological utopia -- 1 In need of new narratives: feminist ustopian fiction challenging the Anthropocene -- 2 Post-anthropocentric ethics of care in turn-of-the-century fiction -- 3 Environmental dys/utopian short stories in Olga Tokarczuk's Opowiadania Bizarne -- PART II: The materiality of posthuman intersections and speculative discourse in fiction and art -- 4 Critical hope: relationalities in 21st-century speculative fiction and art -- 5 The mesotopia: from speculative realism to speculative artistic events -- 6 Neganthropic architecture(s): Renee Gladman's speculative reorientation of science fiction -- PART III: Between history and sexual politics: alternate herstories and historical alternatives -- 7 Temporal politics: entangling fictions, futures, and histories in contemporary and historical speculative fiction -- 8 Utopia of intimacy: "The Fear of the Flesh," hyper- sexualisation, libidinal exhaustion, and a new sexual politics beyond Oedipal (wo)man -- 9 Do cyborgs dream of (becoming) people? The alternative non-human self in Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me -- PART IV: In-between feminist and post-feminist dys/utopias -- 10 Twenty-first-century Gileads : feminist dystopian fiction after Atwood-The Handmaid's Tale, The Natural Way of Things, The Water Cure, and The Testaments -- 11 A rage of her own: the unpredictable powers of female flight in Nnedi Okorafor's The Book of Phoenix. |
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12 Feminist utopianism in the posthuman worlds of Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff and Individutopia by Joss Sheldon -- 13 Developing the F-word: representing adolescent womanhood and race in young adult dystopian novels -- PART V: Beyond the gender and structural binaries in dys/utopian cinema -- 14 Alien bodies, alien selves: Under the Skin (2013) and beyond -- 15 Dys/utopian narratives on the screen: beyond the binaries in Children of Men and The Lobster -- 16 Zombie Mayhem in Austen's Hertfordshire- intersectionality of class and gender politics in Burr Steers's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies -- 17 "Where did all you zombies come from?" Gendered pasts, presents, and futures in Robert Heinlein's "All You Zombies" and the film adaptation Predestination -- Index. |
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Fisiak, Tomasz.
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9781000509939 (electronic bk.) |
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