A01=Susana Loza
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Susana Loza
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=APFN
Category=ATFN
Category=DSBH
Category=DSBJ
Category=JBC
Category=JFC
Category=JFD
COP=United States
Critical Media Studies
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Film Studies and Race
Language_English
Monster Theory
Monsters
Monstrous and Otherness
PA=Available
Post-Racialty
Postmodern Minstrelsy
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
Racial Performativity
Science Fiction
Settler Colonialism
Sexual Performativity
softlaunch
Steampunk Imperialism
Product details
- ISBN 9781498507967
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 159 x 239mm
- Publication Date: 27 Dec 2017
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times explores the(settler) colonial ideologies underpinning the monstrous imaginings of contemporary popular culture in the Britain and the US. Through a close examination of District 9, Avatar, Doctor Who, Planet of the Apes, and steampunk culture, Susana Loza illuminates the durability of (settler) colonialism and how it operates through two linked yet distinct forms of racial mimicry: monsterization and minstrelsy. Speculative Imperialisms contemplates the fundamental, albeit changing, role that such racial simulations play in a putatively postracial and post-colonial era. It brings together the work on gender masquerade, racial minstrelsy, and postcolonial mimicry and puts it in dialogue with film, media, and cultural studies. This project draws upon the theoretical insights of Stuart Hall, Homi K. Bhabha, Edward Said, Philip Deloria, Michael Rogin, Eric Lott, Charles Mills, Falguni Sheth, Lorenzo Veracini, Adilifu Nama, Isiah Lavender III, Gwendolyn Foster, Marianna Torgovnick, Ann Laura Stoler, Anne McClintock, Eric Greene, Richard Dyer, and Ed Guerrero.
Susana Loza is associate professor of critical race, gender, and media studies at Hampshire College.
