Plants in Science Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

Speculative Vegetation
Redaktion: Bishop, Katherine E.; Määttä, Jerry; Higgins, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Plants have played key roles in science fiction novels, graphic novels and film. John Wyndham's triffids, Algernon Blackwood's willows and Han Kang's sprouting woman are just a few examples. Plants surround us, sustain us, pique our imaginations and inhabit our metaphors - but in many ways they remain opaque. The scope of their alienation is as broad as their biodiversity. And yet, literary reflections of plant-life are driven, as are many threads of science fictional inquiry, by the concerns of today. Plants in Science Fiction is the first-ever collected volume on plants in science fiction, and its original essays argue that plant-life in SF is transforming our attitudes toward morality, politics, economics and cultural life at large - questioning and shifting our understandings of institutions, nations, borders and boundaries; erecting and dismantling new visions of utopian and dystopian futures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786835611
• Artikelnr.: 59534357