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oapen-20.500.12657-883202024-03-28T14:02:53Z History and Speculative Fiction Hennessey, John L. Science Fiction speculative fiction historical fiction postcolonialism Literature and Postcolonial Studies alternative realities thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history 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. 2024-03-13T11:10:18Z 2024-03-13T11:10:18Z 2024 book ONIX_20240313_9783031422355_22 9783031422355 9783031422348 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88320 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 9ddd3ea1-fb09-4f0d-bc35-15acfc9634f4 f0779e41-269a-49a0-b5f6-df87c2ecfbae 9783031422355 9783031422348 Palgrave Macmillan 293 Cham [...] [...] 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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