Culture's Futures: Science Fiction, Form and the Problem of Culture by Aronoff, Eric
Culture's Futures: Science Fiction, Form and the Problem of Culture by Aronoff, Eric

Culture's Futures: Science Fiction, Form and the Problem of Culture

This book argues that science fiction has been a key participant, along with anthropology and literary theory,...
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Author: Eric Aronoff
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Language: English
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Culture's Futures: Science Fiction, Form and the Problem of Culture by Aronoff, Eric

Culture's Futures: Science Fiction, Form and the Problem of Culture

$621.20
Culture's Futures: Science Fiction, Form and the Problem of Culture by Aronoff, Eric

Culture's Futures: Science Fiction, Form and the Problem of Culture

$621.20
Author: Eric Aronoff
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

This book argues that science fiction has been a key participant, along with anthropology and literary theory, in the interdisciplinary debates over "culture" and narrative form from the modernist period to the present. Both science fiction and the anthropological ethnography, in their modernist forms and post-modern/postcolonial reinventions, are intertwined technologies for constructing "culture" and difference through narrative worldbuilding. This book traces the ways SF authors -- including Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Octavia E. Butler, as well as Indigenous futurists Craig Strete, Celu Amberstone, Rebecca Roanhorse and Cherie Dimaline -- have deployed, interrogated and revised these models of "culture," representation and power to imagine new futures.



Author: Eric Aronoff
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/25/2025
Pages: 322
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9783031804298

About the Author

Eric Aronoff is an Associate Professor of Humanities in the Residential College of Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University, USA. His areas of expertise are modernist American literature and criticism, anthropology and literature, and theories of culture, as well as science fiction. Eric also has strong research interests in literature and the environment. His work has appeared in journals such as MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Genre and ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance. Eric's first book, Composing Cultures: Modernism, American Literary Studies and the Problem of Culture was published in 2013.


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