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What Can Double Estrangement Reveal about Speculative Fiction?
Fafnir, 2023 In my book Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color, I use the phrase “double estrangement” to describe science fiction texts that add a layer of racial self-consciousness to the estrangement of science fictional settings.
Joy Sanchez-Taylor
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Socio, 2019 After presenting the mainstream perspectives of sociologists of literature towards science fiction, the article aims at developing an original approach that could account for the specificity of science fiction, i.e.
Julien Wacquez
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Culturally mapping universes: Fan production as ethnographic fragments
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2011 Ethnography has played a large role in fan studies; thus, any mention of ethnography in conjunction with fan studies is unsurprising. Ethnography's use of performance studies and the subsequent emphasis on embodied practice, however, creates new ...
Jen Gunnels, Carrie J. Cole
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Science fiction and the teaching of science
Enseñanza de las Ciencias, 2012 This work consists of a first approach to Science in science-fiction from the students’ point of view and researches on which possibilities it offers as a teaching aid.
Mª Francisca Petit Pérez +1 more
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ON XENOPHOBIA IN SCIENCE FICTION
Juvenis Scientia, 2019 The article deals with how the notion of xenophobia is re-iterated in contemporary science fiction. First, the author provides a brief analysis of xenophobia as a cognitive phenomenon that is, on the one hand, built into the mass culture as an archetypal attitude and, on the other hand, symbolically disguised following the two prototypic scenarios ...
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Science fiction literature and its role in society, research, and academia
Prometeica, 2022 Nicola Liberati, Francesco Verso
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Dickens and Science Fiction: A Study of Artificial Intelligence in Great Expectations
19, 2010 Dickens didn't write science fiction - or did he? More to the point, why on earth wouldn't Dickens write science fiction? In an era when writers were experimenting more and more with the fusion of science and the unknown in their writing, the apparent ...
Pete Orford
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ReS Futurae, 2014 Dans cet entretien, Roger Bozzetto retrace sa carrière de critique littéraire et de chercheur, spécialisé en science-fiction et fantastique. Il revient sur les évolutions de la science-fiction en France, ainsi que sur les perspectives critiques propres à
Roger Bozzetto +2 more
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Cultures of ScienceThe relationship between science fiction and science popularization has long been a controversial issue. Based on a brief historical review of the development of science fiction and science popularization in China, this paper analyses related literature ...
Bing Liu, Xige Feng
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Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2020 Science fiction includes many dystopian narratives, often featuring epidemics, pandemics, plagues, viruses, and disease. As science fiction has grown in popularity and prevalence it appeals to an increasingly broad demographic, is employed in research ...
Christopher B. Menadue
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