Out of This World

Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to the New Millennium

Rachel S. Cordasco

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Année: 2021
• ISBN:
  9780252052910
• Sujet: Literature
• Sous-sujet: Literary Criticism

The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion of speculative fiction in translation (SFT). Rachel Cordasco examines speculative fiction published in English translation since 1960, ranging from Soviet-era fiction to the Arabic-language dystopias that emerged following the Iraq War. Individual chapters on SFT from Korean, Czech, Finnish, and eleven other source languages feature an introduction by an expert in the language's speculative fiction tradition and its present-day output. Cordasco then breaks down each chapter by subgenre--including science fiction, fantasy, and horror--to guide readers toward the kinds of works that most interest them. Her discussion of available SFT stands alongside an analysis of how various subgenres emerged and developed in a given language. She also examines the reasons a given subgenre has been translated into English.

An informative and one-of-a-kind guide, Out of This World offers readers and scholars alike a tour of speculative fiction's new globalized era.

Index

Page numbers in italic refer to figures.

1Q84 (Murakami), 149

2017 (Slavnikova), 208

2018 AD (Lundwall), 263

2084 (Sansal), 70

7 Stories (Krzhizhanovsky), 210

Abbas, Ibraheem, 6

Abe Kōbō, 135–36, 147–48

Aberrant (Šindelka), 27, 29

Abolition of Species, The (Dath), 83, 90

Ackerman, Forrest J., 86

Ackerman, Wendayne, 86

Adaf, Shimon, 108, 109, 111, 113

advanced technology, 65, 89, 188

advertising, 139, 212

Aetherial Worlds (Tolstaya), 214

After Dark (Murakami), 149

afterlife, the, 43, 64, 111, 150

after the quake (Murakami), 149

Against God (Senécal), 68

Aira, César, 232

Aitmatov, Chinghiz, 206

Ajvaz, Michal, 29–30

Albina and the Dog-Men (Jodorowsky), 236–37

Aldiss, Brian, x-xi

Aleph, The (Borges), 230

alien planet, 127, 128, 183, 184, 203, 206; empty, 60, 66, 87–88

aliens, friendly, 87; hostile, 19, 55–57, 141, 142, 204, 240; reptiles, 66–67

Allende, Isabel, 247

All You Need Is Kill (Sakurazaka), 142

Alomar, Osama, 6–7

Alphaland (Jurado), 245

alternate history, 6, 56, 63, 110–11, 207, 237; and World War II, 91, 95, 122

Amatka (Tidbeck), 261, 265

Ammaniti, Niccolò, 128

Analog (magazine), xv

Anatomy of Wonder (ed. Barron), xv, xvii

Andromeda (Yefremov), 202

Angel of the West Window, The (Meyrink), 97

Aniara (Martinson), 258–59, 263–64

animals, as performers, 92; hostile, 150; -human hybrid, 91, 210, 236–37; psychic connection to, 146; transformation into, 61, 62

Anna (Ammaniti), 128

Anubis (al-Koni), 5

Aphrodite (Yamada), 142

Apocalypse Z series (Loureiro), 246

Arab Spring, the, 3, 4

Aramaki Yoshio, 145

Architect of Ruins, The (Rosendorfer), 91

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