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Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction
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Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction
About this book
Focusing on the contemporary period, this book brings together critical age studies and contemporary science fiction to establish the centrality of age and ageing in dystopian, speculative and science-fiction imaginaries. Analysing texts from Europe, North America and South Asia, as well as television programmes and films, the contributions range from essays which establish genre-based trends in the representation of age and ageing, to very focused studies of particular texts and concerns. As a whole, the volume probes the relationship between speculative/science fiction and our understanding of what it is to be a human in time: the time of our own lives and the times of both the past and the future.
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Yes, you can access Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction by Sarah Falcus,Maricel Oró-Piqueras in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Film & Video. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: (Maricel Oró-Piqueras and Sarah Falcus)
- 1 Remaking ourselves: Age, death and techno-bodies in the fiction of transhumanist immortality
- 2 Ageing and youthing: Portrayals of progression and regression in science fiction film and TV
- 3 Ageing and generation in recent narratives of longevity
- 4 Biological slaves: Discardable bodies in dystopia
- 5 Contemporary perspectives on ageing in European dystopian literature
- 6 Ageing and age-based extinction in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century speculative and science fiction: William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson’s Logan’s Run (1967) and Christopher Buckley’s Boomsday (2007)
- 7 ‘Whatever comes after human progress’: Transhumanism, antihumanism and the absence of queer ecology in Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Book of Joan
- 8 A spectral future: Dementia and the nonhuman in Marjorie Prime
- 9 A cure for ageing: Digital cloning as utopian end-of-life care in the ‘San Junipero’ episode of Black Mirror
- 10 Ageing, anachronism and perception in dystopian narrative: The case of Margaret Atwood’s ‘Torching the Dusties’
- 11 Playing with possibilities: Ursula Le Guin and speculations on the human condition: An anocritical approach
- Index
- Copyright Page