African diaspora
African science fiction African-American science fiction
Andreas Eschbach
Angelica Gorodischer
Argentine science fiction
Arkady Strugatsky
Boris Strugatsky
Canadian science fiction
Category=DNBL
Category=DSK
Chinese science fiction
comparative studies
Cuban science fiction
cyborg
Daina Chaviano
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
feminist science fiction
Finnish science fiction
Finnish Weird
French Science fiction
genre studies comparative literature
German science fiction
global science fiction
hard science fiction
international science fiction
Jacek Dukaj
Japanese science fiction
Jean-Claude Dunyach
Johanna Sinisalo
Latin American science fiction
Laurent McAllister
Liu Cixin
modernity and science fiction
new weird
Nigerian science fiction
Olatunde Osunsanmi
Polish science fiction
postcolonialism
posthuman
race and science fiction
rhizome
Russian Science Fiction
Sakyo Komatsu
slipstream
soft science fiction
space opera
transnational science fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9780252083372
- Weight: 399g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 May 2018
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope. Yet scholars and students alike face a problem. Where does one begin to explore global SF in the absence of an established canon? Lingua Cosmica opens the door to some of the creators in the vanguard of international science fiction. Eleven experts offer innovative English-language scholarship on figures ranging from Cuban pioneer DaÍna Chaviano to Nigerian filmmaker Olatunde Osunsanmi to the Hugo Award-winning Chinese writer Liu Cixin. These essays invite readers to ponder the themes, formal elements, and unique cultural characteristics within the works of these irreplaceable-if too-little-known-artists. Dale Knickerbocker includes fantasists and genre-benders pushing SF along new evolutionary paths even as they draw on the traditions of their own literary cultures. Includes essays on DaÍna Chaviano (Cuba), Jacek Dukaj (Poland), Jean-Claude Dunyac (France), Andreas Eschbach (Germany), AngÉlica Gorodischer (Argentina), Sakyo Komatsu (Japan), Liu Cixin (China), Laurent McAllister (Yves Meynard and Jean-Louis Trudel, Francophone Canada), Olatunde Osunsanmi (Nigeria), Johanna Sinisalo (Finland), and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Russia). Contributors: Alexis Brooks de Vita, Pawel Frelik, Yvonne Howell, Yolanda Molina-GavilÁn, Vibeke RÜtzou Petersen, Amy J. Ransom, Hanna-Riikka Roine, Hanna Samola, Mingwei Song, Tatsumi Takayuki, Juan Carlos Toledano Redondo, and Natacha Vas-Deyres.
Dale Knickerbocker is Distinguished Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University. He is the author of Juan JosÉ MillÁs: The Obsessive-Compulsive Aesthetic.
