Science Fiction from Quebec

A Postcolonial Study
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-7864-3824-2
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 275 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 452 g

Reihe: Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy

This first book-length study of French-language science fiction from Canada provides an introduction to the subgenre known as 'SFQ' (science fiction from Quebec). In addition, it offers in-depth analyses of SFQ sagas by Jacques Brossard, Esther Rochon, and Elisabeth Vonarburg. It demonstrates how these multivolume narratives of colonization and postcolonial societies exploit themes typical of postcolonial literatures, including the denunciation of oppressive colonial systems, the utopian hope for a better future, and the celebration of tolerant pluralistic societies. A bibliography of SFQ available in English translation is included.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ransom, Amy J.

Palumbo, Donald E.

Sullivan, Iii C. W.

Über Autor(innen)

Amy J. Ransom teaches at Central Michigan University, specializing in Quebec studies. She earned the Science Fiction Research Association's Pioneer Award in 2007 for her work on French-language Canadian science fiction. Her previous publications include a book about classic French fantastic stories, as well as essays on Quebec's fantastic and horror literature and film, alternate history, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French literature.