Explore
History and Speculative Fiction
0 Ungluers have
Faved this Work
Login to Fave
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.
This book is included in DOAB.
Why read this book? Have your say.
You must be logged in to comment.
Rights Information
Are you the author or publisher of this work? If so, you can claim it as yours by registering as an Unglue.it rights holder.Downloads
This work has been downloaded 6 times via unglue.it ebook links.
- 6 - pdf (CC BY) at Unglue.it.
Keywords
- alternative realities
- Historical fiction
- History
- history of science
- History: earliest times to present day
- Humanities
- Literature & literary studies
- Literature and Postcolonial Studies
- Literature: history & criticism
- Mathematics & science
- Postcolonialism
- Science Fiction
- Science: general issues
- Speculative Fiction
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history
- thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science
Links
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-42235-5Editions