History and Speculative Fiction

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-42234-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 293 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 513 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hennessey, John L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction to History and Speculative Fiction: Essays in Honor of Gunlög Fur.- Chapter 2. Concurrences and the Planetary Emergency: Ursula K. Le Guin in the Capitalocene.- Chapter 3. Concurrent Whiteness: Science Fiction Film’s Close Encounters in Apartheid South Africa.- Chapter 4. Settler Colonial Solutions to Settler Colonial Problems: Settler Cinemas and the Crisis of Colonization of Outer Space.- Chapter 5. The Weirdness of White Strangers: Imaginations of Westerners in Southeast Asian Lore and Tradition.- Chapter 6. How [Not] to Run a Colony in the Distant Past and the Future.- Chapter 7. “I get to exist as a Black person in the world”: Bridgerton as Speculative Romance and Alternate History on Screen.- Chapter 8. Ted Chiang’s Counterphysical Stories and History of Science Pedagogy.- Chapter 9.The Dark Past of our Bright Future: Concurrent Histories of Star Trek: Voyager.- Chapter 10. The Wild Boar Never Strikes without Cause: Monstrous Hybrids, National Identity and Gender in the Horror Movie Chawu.- Chapter 11. Heritaging and the Use of History in Margit Sandemo’s The Legend of the Ice People.- Chapter 12. Shadowing the Brutality and Cruelty of Nature: On History and Human Nature in Princess Mononoke.- Chapter 13. Intervening in the Present through Fictions of the Future.- Chapter 14. Building a Kinship Society (short story).

Über Autor(innen)

John L. Hennessey is a research fellow in the History of Ideas and Sciences at Lund University. He has published on global colonial history and the history of science in journals including Science in Context, History and Anthropology, French Colonial History, Settler Colonial Studies and Japan Review.