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  title info:
    title: Italian Science Fiction
    sub title: The Other in Literature and Film
  name:
    name part: Brioni, Simone.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Comberiati, Daniele.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 289 p. 19 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book explores Italian science fiction from 1861, the year of Italy's unification, to the present day, focusing on how this genre helped shape notions of Otherness and Normalness. In particular, Italian Science Fiction draws upon critical race studies, postcolonial theory, and feminist studies to explore how migration, colonialism, multiculturalism, and racism have been represented in genre film and literature. Topics include the role of science fiction in constructing a national identity; the representation and self-representation of "alien" immigrants in Italy; the creation of internal "Others," such as southerners and Roma; the intersections of gender and race discrimination; and Italian science fiction's transnational dialogue with foreign science fiction. This book reveals that though it is arguably a minor genre in Italy, science fiction offers an innovative interpretive angle for rethinking Italian history and imagining future change in Italian society.
  table of contents: 1. The Other in Italian Science Fiction -- 2. The Age of Exploration and the Creation of a National Identity -- 3. Futurism and Fascist Science Fiction -- 4. After the Apocalypse: Hybridity and Civil Rights -- 5. The Internal Other: Representing Roma -- 6. Aliens in a Country of Immigration -- 7. Dystopic Worlds and the Fear of Multiculturalism -- 7. The Questione Settentrionale: Reconfiguring Separatism -- 9. Future Pasts: Revisiting the Colonial Legacy in Alternate History Novels -- 10. Afterword: A Genre Across Cultures.
  note: by Simone Brioni, Daniele Comberiati.
  subject:
    topic: Literature
  subject:
    topic: European literature
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology-Europe
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures-European influences
  subject:
    topic: Postcolonial/World Literature
  subject:
    topic: European Literature
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: European Culture
  subject:
    topic: European Cinema and TV
  classification: PN441-1009.5
  classification: 809
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studies in Global Science Fiction
  identifier: 9783030193263
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19326-3
  record info:
    record creation date: 190718
    record change date: 20191022071757.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-19326-3