| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 380 pages) |
| Series |
Studies in global science fiction, 2569-8834 |
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Studies in global science fiction.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Bridging the Solitudes as a Critical Metaphor / Amy J. Ransom, Dominick Grace - Prologue -- Colonial Visions: The British Empire in Early Anglophone and Francophone Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy / Allan Weiss -- Bridging Borders: Transnationalism and Postcolonialism in Canadian Speculative Fiction -- Nevermind the Gap: Judith Merril Challenges the Status Quo / Ritch Calvin -- Two Solitudes, Two Cultures: Building and Burning Bridges in Peter Watts's Novels / Michele Braun -- The affinity for utopia: Erecting Walls and Building Bridges in Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities / Graham J. Murphy -- The Art of Not Dying: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel and Oscar De Profundis by Catherine Mavrikakis / Patrick Bergeron -- Building Bridges: Constructing and Deconstructing Myths of the Canadian Nation -- When Are We Ever at Home? Exile and Nostalgia in the Work of Guy Gavriel Kay / Susan Johnston -- Reconciliation, Resistance, and Biskaabiiyang: Re-imagining Canadian Residential Schools in Indigenous Speculative Fictions / Judith Leggatt -- Indigenous Futurist Film: Speculation and Resistance in Jeff Barnaby's Rhymes for Young Ghouls and File Under Miscellaneous / Kristina Baudemann -- Bridging the Gender Gap: Transnational and Transsexual Identities in Canadian SF -- Building Hope Through Community in Élisabeth Vonarburg's The Maerlande Chronicles / Caroline Mosser -- Cruising Canadian SF's Queer Futurity: Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child and Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl / Wendy Gay Pearson -- Crossing the (Trans)Gender Bridge: Exploring Intersex and Trans Bodies in Canadian Speculative Fiction / Evelyn Deshane -- Bridging the Species Divide: Technological, Animal, Extraterrestrial, and Posthuman Sentience -- A Maelstrom of Replication: Peter Watts's Glitching Textual Source Codes / Ben Eldridge -- The Missing Link: Bridging the Species Divide in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy / Dunja M. Mohr -- "I Can't Believe This Is Happening!": Bear Horror, the Species Divide, and the Canadian Fight for Survival in a Time of Climate Change / Michael Fuchs -- Interacting with Humans, Aliens, and Others in Science Fiction from Québec / Isabelle Fournier -- Bridging the Slipstream: Generic Fluidity in Canadian Speculative Fiction -- Holes Within and Bridges Beyond: The Transfictions of Élisabeth Vonarburg and Michel Tremblay / Sylvie Bérard -- Tropes Crossing: On Some Québec SF Writers from the Mainstream / Sophie Beaulé -- Transculture, Transgenre: Stanley Péan's Fantastic Detective Fiction / Kathleen Kellett -- Epilogue -- Excerpts from A Glossary of Non-essential Forms and Genres in English-Canadian Literature / Jordan Bolay |
| Summary |
Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror: Bridging the Solitudes exposes the limitations of the solitudes concept so often applied uncritically to the Canadian experience. This volume examines Canadian and Québécois literature of the fantastic across its genres?such as science fiction, fantasy, horror, Indigenous futurism, and others?and considers how its interrogation of colonialism, nationalism, race, and gender works to bridge multiple solitudes. Utilizing a transnational lens, this volume reveals how the fantastic is ready-made for exploring, in non-literal terms, the complex and problematic nature of intercultural engagement |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 18, 2021) |
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Science fiction, Canadian -- History and criticism
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Fantasy fiction, Canadian -- History and criticism
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Horror tales, Canadian -- History and criticism
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Solitude in literature.
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Loneliness in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Loneliness in literature.
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Solitude in literature.
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Fantasy fiction, Canadian.
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Horror tales, Canadian.
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Science fiction, Canadian.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030156855 |
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3030156850 |
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