Science Fiction, New Space Opera, and Neoliberal Globalism
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- ISBN 9781783169443
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2016
- Publisher: University of Wales Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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One of the few points critics and readers can agree upon when discussing the fiction popularly known as New Space Opera – a recent subgenre movement of science fiction – is its canny engagement with contemporary cultural politics in the age of globalisation. This book avers that the complex political allegories of New Space Opera respond to the recent cultural phenomenon known as neoliberalism, which entails the championing of the deregulation and privatisation of social services and programmes in the service of global free-market expansion. Providing close readings of the evolving New Space Opera canon and cultural histories and theoretical contexts of neoliberalism as a regnant ideology of our times, this book conceptualises a means to appreciate this thriving movement of popular literature.
Jerome Winter completed his PhD in English at the University of California, Riverside, where he currently lectures. His work focuses on the intersection of globalisation and contemporary speculative fiction, and he has served as editor of Speculative Fiction for the Los Angeles Review of Books and contributed a chapter on SF art and illustration to the Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (2014).
