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Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Foreword | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 5 |
Postcolonial Issues in Science Fiction | |
Science Fiction as Experimental Ground for Issues of the Postcolonial Novel | p. 17 |
Truth Is Stranger: The Postnational ôAliensö of Biofiction | p. 30 |
Forms of Compromise: The Interaction of Humanity, Technology and Landscape in Ken MacLeod's Night Sessions | p. 46 |
The Language of Postnationality: Cultural Identity via Science Fictional Trajectories | p. 56 |
The Nation and Ethnicity in Science Fiction | |
The ôPopularö Science: Bollywood's Take on Science Fiction and the Discourse of Nations | p. 73 |
Postcolonial Ethics and Identity in Mike Resnick's Kirinyaga | p. 88 |
The Frontier Myth and Racial Politics | p. 100 |
Dystopia and the Postcolonial Nation | p. 125 |
Towards a Postnational Discourse | |
Body Speaks: Communication and the Limits of Nationalism in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy | p. 141 |
Engineering a Cosmopolitan Future: Race, Nation, and World of Warcraft | p. 156 |
When ôNationö Stops Making Sense: Mexico and Giorgio Agamben's ôState of Exceptionö in Children of Men | p. 174 |
Fantastic Language/Political Reporting: The Postcolonial Science Fiction Illocutionary Force Is with Us | p. 188 |
About the Contributors | p. 211 |
Index | p. 213 |
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