The Canadian Fantastic in Focus

New Perspectives
Herausgeber: Weiss, Allan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together papers presented at the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy from 2005 to 2013, this collection of essays includes Veronica Hollinger's keynote address, ""The Body on the Slab,"" and Robert Runte's Aurora Award-winning paper, ""Why I Read Canadian Speculative Fiction,"" along with 15 other contributions on science fiction and fantasy literature, television and music by Canadian creators. Authors discussed include Charles de Lint, Nalo Hopkinson, Tanya Huff, Esther Rochon, Peter Watts and Robert Charles Wilson. Essays on the television show Supernatural and the Scott Pilgrim comics series are also included.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780786495924
• ISBN-10: 0786495928
• Artikelnr.: 41122833

Autorenporträt

Allan Weiss is an associate professor of English and humanities at York University in Toronto. He edited two previous proceedings volumes for the conference, Perspectives on the Canadian Fantastic and Further Perspectives on the Canadian Fantastic, and his short-story collection Living Room appeared in 2001.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction-Allan Weiss
Keynote Addresses
Why I Read Canadian Speculative Fiction: The Social Dimension of
Reading-Robert Runté
The Body on the Slab-Veronica Hollinger
Canadian Science Fiction
Cybernetic Opium Eating, the Kantian Use of Human Beings and Neuromancing
the Gothic Imagination: A Narrative Link-David Milman
One Thing After Another-Dominick Grace
Here Be Monsters: Posthuman Adaptation and Subjectivity in Peter Watts'
Starfish-Clare Wall
Robert Charles Wilson's Mysterium: Thoughts on the Modern Reception of
Gnosticism-Michael Kaler
New Half-Way Tree and the Second World: Themes of Nation and Colonization
in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber-Brecken Hancock
Canadian Fantasy and Dark Fantasy
Sacred Cities: Charles de Lint's Newford Books and the Mythologizing of the
North American Urban Landscape-Cat Ashton
The Word and the Flesh: Natural Law vs. Catholic Dogma in Rikki Ducnornet's
The Stain-Tammy Dasti
Writing About Invented Places: Esther Rochon's Archipelago of
Vrénalik-Maude Deschênes-Pradet
Speculating Diversity: Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring and the Use
of Speculative Fiction to Disrupt Singular Interpretations of Place-Derek
Newman-Stille
"God's Country," Evil's Playground: Susie Moloney, Michael Rowe, Brian
Horeck and the Northern Ontario Gothic-Cat Ashton
Can the Witch Speak? The Supernatural Subaltern in Kelley Armstrong's
Otherworld-Adam Guzkowski
Navigating the Darkness: Blindness and Vampirism in Tanya Huff's Blood
Books-Derek Newman-Stille
Media Expressions
Scott Pilgrim vs. the Megacity-Chester N. Scoville
From "Space Oddity" to Canadian Reality-Isabelle Fournier
From Monstrous Mommies to Hunting Heroines: The Evolution of Women on
Supernatural-Lisa Macklem
About the Contributors
Index