The postworld in-between utopia and dystopia intersectional, feminist, and non-binary approaches in 21st century speculative culture Fisiak, Tomasz editor. Ostalska, Katarzyna editor. text bibliography Criticism, interpretation, etc. Essays. Literary criticism. Literary criticism. Essays. enk 2022 monographic eng print xxii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. "This collection of essays offers global perspectives on feminist utopia and dystopia in speculative literature, film and art, working from a range of intersectional approaches to examine key works and genres in both their specific cultural context and a wider, global, epistemological, critical background. The international, diverse contributions draw upon Posthumanism, Speculative Realism, Speculative Feminism, object-oriented ontology, New Materialisms, and Post-Anthropocene Studies to propose alternative perspectives on gender, environment, as well as alternate futures and pasts rendered in fiction. Instead of binary divisions into utopia vs dystopia, the collection explores genres transcending this dichotomy, scrutinising the oeuvre of both established and emerging writers, directors and critics. This is a rich and unique collection suitable for scholars and students studying feminist literature, media cultural studies and Women's and Gender Studies"-- Foreword: A utopian/dystopian spectrum : from fear to friendship, from consent to coercion / Gregory Claeys -- Introduction: Utopia and dystopia in the 21st century : feminism, intersectionality, and the rejection of binarism / Katarzyna Ostalska, Tomasz Fisiak -- Between anthropocenic dystopia and ecological utopia. In need of new narratives : feminist ustopian fiction challenging the anthropocene / Alessandra Boller -- Post-anthropocentric ethics of care in turn-of-the-century fiction / Katarzyna Więckowska -- Environmental dys/utopian short stories in Olga Tokarczuk's Opowiadania Bizarne / Agnieszka Łowczanin -- The materiality of posthuman intersections and speculative discourse in fiction and art. Critical hope : relationalities in 21st-century speculative fiction and art / Dunja M. Mohr -- The mesotopia : from speculative realism to speculative artistic events / Tristan Verran -- Neganthropic architecture(s) : Renee Gladman's speculative reorientation of science-fiction / Małgorzata Myk -- Between history and sexual politics : alternate herstories and historical alternatives. Temporal politics : entangling fictions, futures, and histories in contemporary and historical speculative fiction / Adam Stock -- Utopia of intimacy : "The fear of the flesh," hyper-sexualisation, libidinal exhaustion, and a new sexual politics beyond Oedipal (wo)man / Mark Featherstone -- Do cyborgs dream of (becoming) people? : the alternative non-human self in Ian McEwan's Machines like me / Tomasz Dobrogoszcz -- In-between feminist and postfeminist dys/utopias. Twenty-first century gileads : feminist dystopian fiction after Atwood -- The handmaid's tale, Natural way of things, The water cure, and The testaments / Fiona Tolan -- A rage of her own : the unpredictable powers of female flight in Nnedi Okorafor's The Book of Phoenix / Svetlana Stefanova -- Feminist utopianism in the posthuman worlds of Last ones left alive by Sarah Davis-Goff and Individutopia by Joss Sheldon / Katarzyna Ostalska -- Developing the F-word : representing adolescent womanhood and race in young-adult dystopian novels / Cristina Paravano -- Beyond the gender and structural binaries in dys/utopian cinema. Alien bodies, alien selves : Under the skin (2013) and beyond / Tomasz Fisiak -- Dys/utopian narratives on the screen : beyond the binaries in Children of men and The lobster / Emrah Atasoy -- Zombie mayhem in Austen's Hertfordshire -- intersectionality of class and gender politics in Burr Steers's Pride and prejudice and zombies / Magdalena Cieślak -- "Where did all you zombies come from?" : gendered pasts, presents and futures in Robert Heinlein's "All You Zombies" and the film adaptation Predestination / Emily Cox-Palmer-White. edited by Tomasz Fisiak, Katarzyna Ostalska. Includes bibliographical references and index. Speculative fiction Women authors History and criticism Speculative fiction 21st century History and criticism Feminism in literature Dystopias in literature Utopias in literature Future, The, in literature Dystopias in literature Feminism in literature Future, The, in literature Speculative fiction Utopias in literature 2000-2099 fast PN3448.S64 P67 2022 809.3/876 Interdisciplinary research in gender Postworld in-between utopia and dystopia Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 (DLC) 2021033693 9780367537043 0367537044 9780367537067 0367537060 9781003082958 9781000509939 9781000509960 2021033692 DLC 210903 20220308093358.0 in00004554005 eng