Ann Leckie's Ancillary justice : a critical companion /
From racial capitalism and neo-imperialism to gender expression and revolutionary agency, Higgins writes with nuance and generosity to all potential readers about the real-world conditions that lie just under the surface of Leckie's far-future space opera. This book argues that Ann Leckie'...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2022].
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| Series: | Palgrave science fiction and fantasy : a new canon.
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| Summary: | From racial capitalism and neo-imperialism to gender expression and revolutionary agency, Higgins writes with nuance and generosity to all potential readers about the real-world conditions that lie just under the surface of Leckie's far-future space opera. This book argues that Ann Leckie's novel Ancillary Justice offers a devastating rebuke to the political, social, cultural and economic injustices of American imperialism in the post 9/11 era. Following an introductory overview, the study offers four chapters that examine key themes central to the novel, gender, imperial economics, race and revolutionary agency. Ancillary Justices exploration of these four themes, and the way it reveals how these issues are all fundamentally entangled with the problem of contemporary imperial power, warrants its status as a canonical work of science fiction for the twenty-first century. The book concludes with a brief interview with Leckie herself touching on each of the topics examined during the preceding chapters. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 92 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783031182600 303118260X |