Old Futures : : Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility / / Alexis Lothian.
Finalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, presented by the Locus Science Fiction FoundationTraverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital mediaOld Futures explores the social,...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Postmillennial Pop ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 40 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Future’s Queer Histories
- Part I. A History of No Future: Feminism, Eugenics, and Reproductive Imaginaries
- 1. Utopian Interventions to the Reproduction of Empire
- 2. Dystopian Impulses, Feminist Negativity, and the Fascism of the Baby’s Face
- Wormhole. The Future Stops Here: Countering the Human Project
- Part II. A Now that Can Breed Futures: Queerness and Pleasure in Black Science Fiction
- 3. Afrofuturist Entanglements of Gender, Eugenics, and Queer Possibility
- 4. Science Fiction Worlding and Speculative Sex
- Wormhole. Try This at Home: Networked Public Sexual Fantasy
- Part III. It’s the Future, but It Looks like the Present: Queer Speculations on Media Time
- 5. Queer Deviations from the Future on Screen
- 6. How to Remix the Future
- Epilogue: Queer Geek Politics after the Future
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author