Globalization, utopia, and postcolonial science fiction : new maps of hope /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Smith, Eric D.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Subjects:	Science fiction > History and criticism. Developing countries > Literatures. Literature and globalization. Utopias in literature. Postcolonialism in literature.

Table of Contents:

1. "Fictions where a man could live" : worldlessness against the void in Salman Rushdie's Grimus
2. "The only way out is through" : spaces of narrative and the narrative of space in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight robber
3. There's no splace like home : domesticity, difference, and the "long space" of short fiction in Vandana Singh's The woman who thought she was a planet
4. Claiming the futures that are, or, The cunning of history in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta chromosome and Manjula Padmanabhan's "Gandhi-toxin"
5. Mob zombies, alien nations, and cities of the undead : monstrous subjects and the post-millennial nomos in I am legend and District 9
6. Third-world punks, or, Watch out for the worlds behind you.