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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 197–198.
Published: 01 March 2008
... 2008 General Rumors of War and Infernal Machines: Technomilitary Agenda-Setting in American and British Speculative Fiction . By Charles E. Gannon. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2005. 311 pp. Cloth, $82.50; paper, $26.95. Brief Mention
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View articletitled, Rumors of War and Infernal Machines: Technomilitary Agenda-Setting in American and British <span class="search-highlight">Speculative</span> <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span>
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 898–901.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Benjamin Bateman Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission . By Kevin Ohi . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2015 . 326 pp. Cloth, $96.50 ; paper, $27.50 ; e-book available. Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility . By Alexis Lothian...
View articletitled, Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission Old Futures: <span class="search-highlight">Speculative</span> <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span> and Queer Possibility Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility
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for article titled, Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission Old Futures: <span class="search-highlight">Speculative</span> <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span> and Queer Possibility Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 779–805.
Published: 01 December 2010
... Bradley, Octavia Butler, James McBride, and Phyllis Alesia Perry, Dubey explores the various ways the generic choice of speculative fiction sponsors a purposefully antihistorical approach to the past. Speculative novels of slavery employ paranormal narrative devices of time-travel and supernatural...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 413–415.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Joni Adamson Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism . By Otto Eric C. . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2012 . x , 152 pp. Cloth , $44.95 ; CD , $14.95 . Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins: Waste and Contamination in US Ethnic...
View articletitled, Green <span class="search-highlight">Speculations</span>: Science <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span> and Transformative Environmentalism Positive Pollutions and Cultural Toxins: Waste and Contamination in US Ethnic Literatures
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 159–184.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Lindsay Thomas This essay examines two kinds of speculative fiction focused on the management of climate change: preparedness documents on climate change as a threat to national security, and Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (1993–96), a science fiction trilogy about the terraformation...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 569–596.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Shouhei Tanaka Abstract This article examines how literary imaginaries of the haptic in Black speculative fiction attend to the racial politics of the Anthropocene and the centrality of sensory praxis to ecological thought. Reading Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s M Archive and N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 June 2015
... together disparate elements into a single, legible identity. Threats to this identity reemerge through science-fiction narratives, which allow readers to obtain a cool and estranged perspective on otherwise disturbing ideas and emotions. Nevertheless, Playboy rejected even speculative short stories...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 73–102.
Published: 01 March 2022
... fiction and slash fiction, for example, illustrate how fans draw on the, often queer, potential they identify and long for in media texts by reimagining characters otherwise. 18 Scholars and critics as academic audiences, too, practice speculating on representations (Hills 2002 ). For instance...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 439–448.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... Cloth , $80.00 ; paper, $30.00 ; e-book available. Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction . By Carrington André M. . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 282 pp. Cloth , $87.50 ; paper, $25.00 ; e-book available. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 237–249.
Published: 01 June 2011
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for science fiction and fantasy favored by its writers, artists, and
critics: speculative fiction or SF. The abbreviation in fact captures an
important lack of specificity about what constitutes the genre at all,
though many critics nevertheless begin with the hopeless task of
defining...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 199–202.
Published: 01 March 2013
... American Literature
another.” In the scholarship of Adilifu Nama, Ben Saunders, and Isiah Lav
ender III, readers are reminded that Sedgwick’s claim is not only true of
human society and its cultural productions, but that this is especially so in
speculative fiction. Respectively exploring the rise...
View articletitled, Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes Do the Gods Wear Capes? Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes Race in American Science <span class="search-highlight">Fiction</span>
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 185–188.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of
human society and its cultural productions, but that this is especially so in
speculative fiction. Respectively exploring the rise of the black superhero, the
metaphysical implications of superhero narratives, and the racial underpin-
nings of science fiction, these authors explore how speculative...
View articletitled, Oriental Shadows: The Presence of the East in Early American Literature American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era Through the Twentieth Century American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the Nineteenth-Century Imaginary
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 March 2013
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ender III, readers are reminded that Sedgwick’s claim is not only true of
human society and its cultural productions, but that this is especially so in
speculative fiction. Respectively exploring the rise of the black superhero, the
metaphysical implications of superhero narratives, and the racial...
View articletitled, This Ecstatic Nation: The American Landscape and the Aesthetics of Patriotism Imagining the Forest: Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 190–192.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of
human society and its cultural productions, but that this is especially so in
speculative fiction. Respectively exploring the rise of the black superhero, the
metaphysical implications of superhero narratives, and the racial underpin-
nings of science fiction, these authors explore how speculative...
View articletitled, Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 the Trouble with Sauling Around: Conversion in Ethnic American Autobiography, 1965–2002 the Ethics of Community: Nancy, Derrida, Morrison, and Menendez
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 193–195.
Published: 01 March 2013
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ender III, readers are reminded that Sedgwick’s claim is not only true of
human society and its cultural productions, but that this is especially so in
speculative fiction. Respectively exploring the rise of the black superhero, the
metaphysical implications of superhero narratives, and the racial...
View articletitled, Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 195–197.
Published: 01 March 2013
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ender III, readers are reminded that Sedgwick’s claim is not only true of
human society and its cultural productions, but that this is especially so in
speculative fiction. Respectively exploring the rise of the black superhero, the
metaphysical implications of superhero narratives, and the racial...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 197–199.
Published: 01 March 2013
...
ender III, readers are reminded that Sedgwick’s claim is not only true of
human society and its cultural productions, but that this is especially so in
speculative fiction. Respectively exploring the rise of the black superhero, the
metaphysical implications of superhero narratives, and the racial...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 202–204.
Published: 01 March 2013
...
ender III, readers are reminded that Sedgwick’s claim is not only true of
human society and its cultural productions, but that this is especially so in
speculative fiction. Respectively exploring the rise of the black superhero, the
metaphysical implications of superhero narratives, and the racial...
View articletitled, The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq
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Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 689.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., “Toward a Cosmo-
politan Science Fiction,” appeared in the June 2011 “Speculative Fictions”
issue of American Literature ( June 2011, 331–54). Everett Hamner received
an honorable mention for his essay “The Predisposed Agency of Genomic Fic-
tion,” published in the same issue (414–41...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 243–271.
Published: 01 June 2012
...-century theories of John Cleves Symmes, who believed the earth was hollow and accessible through openings at the poles. In discussing an early-nineteenth-century hollow-earth theorist and his influence on hollow-earth fictions—beginning with the narrative Symzonia (1820)—the essay considers the unexplored...
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