Jerome Winter: Building Bridges between Cultures in Ian McDonald's Science Fiction, Gebunden
Building Bridges between Cultures in Ian McDonald's Science Fiction
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Academic, 09/2025
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781666956801
- Item number:
- 12305392
- Volume:
- 244 Pages
- Weight:
- 503 g
- Format:
- 229 x 152 mm
- Thickness:
- 14 mm
- Release date:
- 4.9.2025
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
This book is a career-long retrospective of the Irish writer Ian McDonald and his complex, compelling representation of our contemporary global condition.
Ian McDonald is a celebrated writer within the science-fiction community whose rich and urgent body of works, span over a quarter of a century. The author claims McDonald's work functions as vital, troubling allegories, which both refuse the Orientalist euphemizing of colonial atrocities, while still at the same time envisioning a transformative global alterity, seeking an ethical and political embrace of systematically silenced subaltern voices in the neoliberal world-system. The book follows McDonald as the globe-trotting writer travels from Ireland to Kenya, to India, to Brazil, to Turkey, to a proliferating multiverse and beyond. Along the way, the author analyzes McDonald's science fiction as a salient contribution to the flourishing cosmopolitan literature of postcolonial developing nations at the crossroads of the global imaginary.