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oapen-20.500.12657-869082024-01-15T17:33:48Z History and Speculative Fiction Hennessey, John L. Science Fiction speculative fiction historical fiction postcolonialism Literature and Postcolonial Studies alternative realities bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction perform similar work in “making the strange familiar” and “making the familiar strange” by taking their readers on journeys through space and time. Excellent history, like excellent speculative fiction, should cause readers to reconsider crucial aspects of their society that they normally overlook or lead them to reflect on radically different forms of social organization. Drawing on Gunlög Fur’s postcolonial concept of concurrences, and with contributions that explore diverse examples of speculative fiction and historical encounters using a variety of disciplinary approaches, this volume provides new perspectives on colonialism, ecological destruction, the nature of humanity, and how to envision a better future. 2024-01-15T16:45:51Z 2024-01-15T16:45:51Z 2024 book ONIX_20240115_9783031422355_29 9783031422355 9783031422348 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86908 eng application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-42235-5.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-42235-5 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-42235-5 10.1007/978-3-031-42235-5 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 d0e1cd83-8ecb-44a2-bba8-187a50881e77 fee8bb48-8f31-4593-9d04-5ba82b183c7a 9783031422355 9783031422348 Palgrave Macmillan 293 Cham [...] [...] Lund University open access
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This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction perform similar work in “making the strange familiar” and “making the familiar strange” by taking their readers on journeys through space and time. Excellent history, like excellent speculative fiction, should cause readers to reconsider crucial aspects of their society that they normally overlook or lead them to reflect on radically different forms of social organization. Drawing on Gunlög Fur’s postcolonial concept of concurrences, and with contributions that explore diverse examples of speculative fiction and historical encounters using a variety of disciplinary approaches, this volume provides new perspectives on colonialism, ecological destruction, the nature of humanity, and how to envision a better future.
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