Caroline-Isabelle Caron explores how Speculative Fiction from Québec from the 1970s to 2015 has eerily echoed alarmist thoughts concerning Québec independence and Québec's place in the space-time continuum of history, from the first explorers to Turtle Island to the present and well into the future.
Speculative fiction, no matter how fictional, is an inherently historical literary genre. With this in mind, this book presents an in-depth analysis of Québec's identity question as viewed through the prism of Speculative Fiction. It proposes innumerable configurations of a future that is, more often than not, fractured and bleak. Caron argues that these works both fictionalize and amplify broader collective fears and social anxieties around long term survival, language, ethnicity, race, religion, fascism, oppression and colonialism, while projecting the contemporary interpretations of Québec's past into the future. In doing so, Speculative Fiction from Québec reveals a constant preoccupation with the meanings of agency, individuality, collectivity, nationality, and territory in the same period.
Speculative fiction, no matter how fictional, is an inherently historical literary genre. With this in mind, this book presents an in-depth analysis of Québec's identity question as viewed through the prism of Speculative Fiction. It proposes innumerable configurations of a future that is, more often than not, fractured and bleak. Caron argues that these works both fictionalize and amplify broader collective fears and social anxieties around long term survival, language, ethnicity, race, religion, fascism, oppression and colonialism, while projecting the contemporary interpretations of Québec's past into the future. In doing so, Speculative Fiction from Québec reveals a constant preoccupation with the meanings of agency, individuality, collectivity, nationality, and territory in the same period.
Sivuja: 316
Kategoria: Kultur-, Genus- & Postkoloniala studier
e-ISBN: 9781978764606
Lähetyspaino: 1.2 kg
Toimitusaika: 1-2 päivää
Maksa helposti kortilla, Klarnalla, Apple Paylla tai Google Paylla. Etkö ole tyytyväinen? Sinulla on aina 14 päivän palautusoikeus. Lue lisää ehdoistamme. Jos sinulla on kysyttävää, lähetä meille sähköpostia osoitteeseen hello@memmo.org.
Memmo tekee opiskelusta helpompaa – missä päin maailmaa ikinä oletkin. Meillä yhdistät kurssikirjat ja fiksut opiskelutyökalut yhteen paikkaan: tiivistelmät, visat, podcastit ja muistikortit. Ja sitten Ted, opiskelukaverisi, joka vastaa kaikkeen, mitä ikinä mietitkin. Yli 50 000 opiskelijaa opiskelee jo täällä – rakennettu auttamaan sinua oppimaan nopeammin ja stressaamaan vähemmän.