Italian Science Fiction The Other in Literature and Film /

• Main Authors: Brioni, Simone (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Comberiati, Daniele (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Studies in Global Science Fiction,
• Subjects: Literature .; European literature.; Fiction.; Ethnology-Europe.; Motion pictures-European influences.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; European Literature.; European Culture.; European Cinema and TV.

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 stud...

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.