Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Challenging Genres
Why did Kurt Vonnegut shun being labeled a writer of science fiction (SF)? How did Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin find themselves in a public argument about the nature of SF? This volume explores the broad category of SF as a genre, as one that cha
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Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genre Volume 3 Series Editor: P. L. Thomas, Furman University, Greenville, USA
Editorial Board: Leila Christenbury, Virginia Commonwealth University Jeanne Gerlach, University of Texas-Arlington Ken Lindblom, Stony Brook University Renita Schmidt, Furman University Karen Stein, University of Rhode Island Shirley Steinberg, McGill University, Montreal
This series explores in separate volumes major authors and genres through a critical literacy lens that seeks to offer students opportunities as readers and writers to embrace and act upon their own empowerment. Each volume will challenge authors (along with examining authors that are themselves challenging) and genres as well as challenging norms and assumptions associated with those authors’ works and genres themselves. Further, each volume will confront teachers, students, and scholars by exploring all texts as politically charged mediums of communication. The work of critical educators and scholars will guide each volume, including concerns about silenced voices and texts, marginalized people and perspectives, and normalized ways of being and teaching that ultimately dehumanize students and educators.
Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Challenging Genres
Edited by P. L. Thomas Furman University, Greenville, SC, USA
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
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Introduction: Challenging Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction P. L. Thomas
1
1. A Case for SF and Speculative Fiction: An Introductory Consideration P. L. Thomas
15
2. SF and Speculative Novels: Confronting the Science and the Fiction Michael Svec and Mike Winiski
35
3. SF Novels and Sociological Experimentation: Examining Real World Dynamics through Imaginative Displacement Aaron Passell
59
4. “Peel[ing] apart Layers of Meaning” in SF Short Fiction: Inviting Students to Extrapolate on the Effects of Change Jennifer Lyn Dorsey
73
5. Reading Alien Suns: Using SF Film to Teach a Political Literacy of Possibility John Hoben
95
6. Singularity, Cyborgs, Drones, Replicants and Avatars: Coming to Terms with the Digital Self Leila E. Villaverde and Roymieco
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