Age and ageing in contemporary speculative and science fiction /
"Focusing on the contemporary period, this book brings together critical age studies and contemporary science fiction to establish the centrality of age and ageing in dystopian, speculative and science-fiction imaginaries. Analysing texts from Europe, North America and South Asia, as well as te...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London, UK ; New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Bloomsbury studies in the humanities, ageing and later life.
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| Summary: | "Focusing on the contemporary period, this book brings together critical age studies and contemporary science fiction to establish the centrality of age and ageing in dystopian, speculative and science-fiction imaginaries. Analysing texts from Europe, North America and South Asia, as well as television programmes and films, the contributions range from essays which establish genre-based trends in the representation of age and ageing, to very focused studies of particular texts and concerns. As a whole, the volume probes the relationship between speculative/science fiction and our understanding of what it is to be a human in time: the time of our own lives and the times of both the past and the future."-- |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 233 pages ; 24 cm.. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1350230707 9781350230705 |