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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Falcus, Sarah (Editor), Oró Piqueras, Maricel (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Bloomsbury studies in the humanities, ageing and later life.
Subjects:	Age in literature. Aging in literature. Dystopias in literature. Science fiction > History and criticism. Speculative fiction > History and criticism. Âge dans la littérature. Dystopies dans la littérature. Vieillissement dans la littérature. Age in literature Aging in literature Dystopias in literature Film: styles & genres. Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers. Literary studies: from c 1900 - Literary studies: post-colonial literature. Science fiction. Science fiction

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Intersections between age studies and science and speculative fiction / Sarah Falcus, University of Huddersfield, UK and Maricel Oró-Piqueras, University of Lleida, Spain
Chapter one: Ebbing and Flowing, Aging and Youthing: Portrayals of Progression and Regression in Aging Studies and Science Fiction / Peter Goggin, Arizona State University, USA and Ulla Kriebernegg, University of Graz, Austria
Chapter two: Prejudice Against Our Feared Future Self: Contemporary Perspectives on Ageing in European Dystopian Literature / Aleksandra Pogonska-Baranowska, University of Warsaw, Poland
Chapter three: Ageing and Age-Based extinction in Twentieth- and Early-Twenty-First-Century Speculative and Science Fiction / William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson's Logan's Run (1967) and Christopher Buckley's Boomsday (2007): Stella Achileos, University of Cyprus
Chapter four: Biological Slaves: Discardable Bodies in Dystopia / Aline Ferreira, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Chapter five: Remaking Ourselves: Age, Death and Techno-Bodies in the Fiction of Transhumanist Immortality / Teresa Bothelo, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal
Chapter six: (Im)mortality, Ageing and Generation in Recent Speculative Fiction / Sarah Falcus, University of Huddersfield, UK and Maricel Oró-Piqueras, University of Lleida, Spain
Chapter seven: "Hear[ing] the dead" and "remember[ing] the past": Aging and Embodied Memory in Postcolonial Speculative Fiction / Meghan K. Riley, University of Waterloo, Canada
Chapter eight: Heaven Is a Place on Earth: The Biopolitics of Old Age, Euthanasia, and Digital Cloning in the "San Junipero" Episode of Black Mirror / Ezster Ureczky, University of Debrecen, Hungary
Chapter nine: Middle-Ageing Masculinities: Speculating on Rejuvenation / Nicholas Stavris, University of Huddersfield, UK
Chapter ten: Playing with Possibilities / Ursula Le Guin and Speculations on the Human Condition: Roberta Maierhofer, University of Graz, Austria
Chapter eleven: Ageing, Anachronism and Perception in Dystopian Narrative: The Case of Margaret Atwood's 'Torching the Dusties' (2014) / Susan Watkins, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Chapter twelve: 'Whatever comes after human progress' / Lidia Yuknavitch's Queer Anti-Humanism: Sean Seeger, University of Essex, UK.