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Anti-heroic figures, Dream Boxes, and the Search for the Nature of Humanity: A Cyborg Narrative in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction

Writing Chinese: A Journal of Contemporary Sinophone Literature
KEYNOTE Yuqin Jiang is Professor of Comparative Literature, at the School of Humanities, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen. Her research interests span cyborg narrative, sci-fi poetics, digital humanities, science fiction, postcolonial literature, and ...
Yuqin Jiang
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“All these worlds are yours except …”: Science Fiction and Folk Fictions at NASA

Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2019
Although they command real spacecraft exploring the solar system, NASA scientists refer frequently to science fiction in the course of their daily work. Fluency with the Star Trek series and other touchstone works demonstrates membership in broader geek ...
Janet Vertesi
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Écrire des fictions « vraies »

Communication, 2022
To what extent can fiction contribute to analyses in the social sciences? Are narrative techniques compatible with the epistemology of social science disciplines? Does the imaginary shape how we understand the world? If so, how?
Pierre Lascoumes
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The conflicts among globalization, modernization and tradition in science fiction: The case of

Cultures of Science
Science fiction takes many forms, including academic work that calls on readers to think about social and cultural problems. This paper takes a piece of science fiction, Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia , as an example and discusses the conflicts among ...
Bing Liu
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Utopian Science Fiction and Ethnic Future Imagination in Chinese Contemporary Science Fiction

Humanities
Utopian science fiction, as a fusion of science fiction literature and utopian literature, integrates the construction of imagined interactions between people, technology, society, and the environment in future narratives.
Yuqin Jiang
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Why has sci-fi literature lost its popularity in Azerbaijan after 1990?

RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2020
This paper examines the reasons why science fiction works are not popular in the last decades in Azerbaijan. The focus of this research is to determine whether there is a lack of science fiction novels in the market or low-quality of existing modern ...
Gunel Alasgarova
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IMAGES OF JIHAD AND PROBLEMS OF LEGITIMATION OF RELIGIOUS PROTEST AS A FORM OF CLASS CONFLICT AND SOCIAL LIBERATION

Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2023
Background. The author analyzes the texts of the Dune cycle in contexts of modern historiography, including its universal methods that allow analyzing “oriental” images in literature through the prism of constructing and deconstructing narratives that ...
Maksym W. Kyrchanoff
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The Use of "Literary Fiction" to Promote Mentalizing Ability. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Empathy is a multidimensional process that incorporates both mentalizing and emotional sharing dimensions. Empathic competencies are important for creating interpersonal relationships with other people and developing adequate social behaviour.
Maria Chiara Pino, Monica Mazza
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Terra! di Stefano Benni: una cometa apocalittica nella letteratura italiana degli anni Ottanta

Cahiers d’Études Italiennes
Published in 1983, Stefano Benni’s Terra! is a dystopian novel blending satire, science fiction, and social critique, reinterpreting Anglo-Saxon narrative models through irony and linguistic experimentation. In analyzing Benni’s novel, this article first
Stefano Magni
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Reproductive Justice: The Final (Feminist) Frontier

Law, Technology and Humans, 2022
From Gattaca to Star Trek, problematic tropes surrounding reproduction can easily be found in works of mainstream science fiction. Such tropes uphold conservative anxieties around reproductive technologies, abortion, and pregnancy, and these works thus ...
Zoe Tongue
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