Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror: Bridging the Solitudes

Ransom, Amy J. (Editor)/ Grace, Dominick (Editor)

ISBN 10: 3030156877 / ISBN 13: 9783030156879

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

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392 pages. 8.26x5.82x0.89 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror: Bridging the Solitudes
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030156877
• ISBN 13: 9783030156879
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.52 kilograms

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Synopsis

Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror: Bridging the Solitudes exposes the limitations of the solitudes concept so often applied uncritically to the Canadian experience. This volume examines Canadian and Québécois literature of the fantastic across its genres—such as science fiction, fantasy, horror, indigenous futurism, and others—and considers how its interrogation of colonialism, nationalism, race, and gender works to bridge multiple solitudes. Utilizing a transnational lens, this volume reveals how the fantastic is ready-made for exploring, in non-literal terms, the complex and problematic nature of intercultural engagement.

About the Author

Amy J. Ransom is Chair of World Languages and Cultures at Central Michigan University, USA. She has published over two dozen articles on Québécois popular genre literatures and film and is the author of Science Fiction from Québec (2009) and Hockey PQ (2014).

Dominick Grace is Professor of English at Brescia University, Canada. He is the author of The Science Fiction of Phyllis Gotlieb (2015) and several articles on Canadian literature of the fantastic, and coeditor of several collections of interviews with cartoonists, a volume on Canadian comics, and a volume on Twin Peaks.