Exploring Star Trek

Voyager : Critical Essays
Herausgeber: Lively, Robert L.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In 1995, Star Trek: Voyager brought a new dynamic to Star Trek's familiar, starship oriented, show. Lost 70,000 light-years in space, Voyager and its crew faced an uncertain and changeable future, echoing anxieties felt in the United States at the time. These fifteen essays explore the context, characters, and themes of Star Trek: Voyager, as they relate to the culture and zeitgeist of the 1990s. Essays on gender show how the series both challenges and reinforces typical SF stereotypes through the characters of Captain Janeway, Kes and Seven of Nine, while essays on identity examine the show's intersections with disability studies, race and multiracial identities, family dynamics, and emerging AI and humanity. Using the epic journey of Homer's Odyssey as a starting point for the series, and ending with an examination of the impacts of inception at the birth of the internet age, this book shows the many ways in which Voyager negotiated different perspectives for what the future of the galaxy and the USA could be.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9781476678214
• ISBN-10: 1476678219
• Artikelnr.: 58769461

Autorenporträt

Robert L. Lively is a professor of English at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nevada. His work has appeared in Rhetoric Review, Popular Culture Review, Tormented Space, Wormhole Weapons, and The Worlds of Farscape: Essays on the Groundbreaking Television Series.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword (Lincoln Geraghty)
Introduction (Robert L. Lively)
Part I. Ties to The Past: Voyager and Our Literary Heritage
"Far from gay cities and the ways of men": Exploring Wandering
and Homecoming in The Odyssey and Star Trek: Voyager (Kwasu David Tembo )15
"From hell's heart, I stab at thee": Villain Typologies of the Delta
Quadrant (Andrew Howe)
"Caught between worlds": Religion and Star Trek: Voyager
Camilo Peralta
Part II. Gendering the 24th Century: Problems, Solutions, Pathways
Where No Woman Has Gone Before: Kathryn Janeway Breaking
the Glass Ceiling or Reinforcing Stereotypes? (Michelle M. Tabit)
Millennial Girlhood and the End of Kes (Peter W.Y. Lee)
"Tuvix" and Feminist Ethics in the Delta Quadrant (Jeffrey Boruszak)
"There's a woman in there if you'd take the time to look!"
Seven of Nine's Problematic Feminism (Sarah Canfield)
Part III. Negotiating Identities in the Delta Quadrant
Disabling Resistance: Voyager and Federation Ideology (Daniel Preston and
Craig A. Meyer)
B'Elanna Torres and the Hated Half: Negotiating
Mixed-Race/Species Identity (Sherry Ginn)
Foreheads, Bad Attitudes and Mothers: Dismantling
the Nuclear Family (Eileen Totter)
Please State the Nature of Your Humanity: The Doctor
and the Quest to Find Personality in Technology (Ian Thomas Malone)
Disturbing Parallel: The Shifting Politics of Racial Inclusion
and Exclusion in Star Trek: Voyager (Christian Jimenez)
Part IV. Broader Perspectives of the Future
The Politics of Nurturing: Gender, Care and Colonialism
in Voyager's Female Friendships (Rosy B. Mack)
Lost in Space Without an Idea of Home: The Triumph
of Neoliberal Depoliticization in Star Trek: Voyager (Alex
Burston-Chorowicz)
Confessions of an Anti-Fan: Voyager, Fandom and Dislike (Murray Leeder)
About the Contributors
Index