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Building Bridges between Cultures in Ian McDonald's Science Fiction
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This book is a career-long retrospective of the Irish writer Ian McDonald and his complex, compelling representation of our contemporary global condition.
Ian McDonald is a celebrated writer within the science-fiction community whose rich and urgent body of works, span over a quarter of a century. The author claims McDonald's work functions as vital, troubling allegories, which both refuse the Orientalist euphemizing of colonial atrocities, while still at the same time envisioning a transformative global alterity, seeking an ethical and political embrace of systematically silenced subaltern voices in the neoliberal world-system. The book follows McDonald as the globe-trotting writer travels from Ireland to Kenya, to India, to Brazil, to Turkey, to a proliferating multiverse and beyond. Along the way, the author analyzes McDonald's science fiction as a salient contribution to the flourishing cosmopolitan literature of postcolonial developing nations at the crossroads of the global imaginary.
Ian McDonald is a celebrated writer within the science-fiction community whose rich and urgent body of works, span over a quarter of a century. The author claims McDonald's work functions as vital, troubling allegories, which both refuse the Orientalist euphemizing of colonial atrocities, while still at the same time envisioning a transformative global alterity, seeking an ethical and political embrace of systematically silenced subaltern voices in the neoliberal world-system. The book follows McDonald as the globe-trotting writer travels from Ireland to Kenya, to India, to Brazil, to Turkey, to a proliferating multiverse and beyond. Along the way, the author analyzes McDonald's science fiction as a salient contribution to the flourishing cosmopolitan literature of postcolonial developing nations at the crossroads of the global imaginary.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction: The Genesis of Ian McDonald’s Magical Science-Fictionalism
- 1 A Magic-SF Mission to Mars: The Inception of the Global Imaginary in “The Catherine Wheel (Our Lady of Tharsis),” Desolation Road, and Ares Express
- 2 The Mygmus, Alien-Loving Frooks, and the Warriors of Destiny: Competing Globalisms and Sectarian Cosmopolitics in McDonald’s Irish Trilogy
- 3 “Post-humanity’s Playground”: The Chaga Saga, Afrofuturist Magic Realism, and Global Science Fiction
- 4 Rogue Aeais, Krishna Cops, and the Global Subaltern in River of Gods and Cyberabad Days
- 5 The Quantum Multiverse Meets the Global Marketplace: Brasyl and the Everness Series
- 6 “Istanbul, Queen of Cities”: Neoliberal Capitalism and Postcolonial Nationalism in Ian McDonald’s The Dervish House
- 7 “The Dark Grinning Skull of Margaret Thatcher”: The Reimagining of Radical Anarcho-Capitalist Ideology in McDonald’s Luna Trilogy
- 8 Hopeland: Constellations of Critically Utopian Romance in the Global Anthropocene
- An Ian McDonald Selected Bibliography
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright