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1 online resource |
| Series |
American Culture Studies ; 7 |
| Contents |
Introduction : dealing in futures -- Are you paranoid enough? Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days and the politics of risk and speculation -- Live on the edge I say : edgework, risk, and literary form in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange -- Monstrous politics : epistemological empowerment, natural science, and new territories of empire in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl -- Towards a poetics of risk and speculation |
| Summary |
The anticipatory logic of speculation and preemptive politics of risk are increasingly gaining significance in a globalizing neoliberal world. This study traces risk and speculation as aesthetic and political-economic strategies in factual and fictional discourses emerging at the North American Pacific Rim within a decade around 2000. Its exemplary close readings in particular focus on three fictional texts (Kathryn Bigelow's Hollywood film »Strange Days±, 1995, Karen T. Yamashita's novel »Tropic of Orange±, 1997, and Larissa Lai's novel »Salt Fish Girl±, 2002) whose intricate aesthetics pass |
| Notes |
In English |
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| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Themes, motives
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Risk in literature.
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Speculation -- In literature
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
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American fiction -- Themes, motives
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American literature
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Risk in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1306996821 |
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9781306996822 |
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383942416X |
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9783839424162 |
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