Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of humanity itself. In an era when a religious authority can declare lesbians antihuman while some nations legalise same-sex marriage and are becoming increasingly tolerant of a variety of non-normative sexualities, it is hardly surprising that science fiction, in turn, takes up the task of imagining a diverse range of queer and not-so-queer futures. The essays in Queer Universes investigate both contemporary and historical practices of representing sexualities and genders in science fiction literature. Queer Universes opens with Wendy Pearson's award-winning essay on reading sf queerly and goes on to include discussions about 'sextrapolation' in New Wave science fiction, 'stray penetration' in William Gibson's cyberpunk fiction, the queering of nature in ecofeminist science fiction, and the radical challenges posed to conventional science fiction in the work of important writers such as Samuel R. Delany, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Joanna Russ. In addition, Queer Universes offers an interview with Nalo Hopkinson and a conversation about queer lives and queer fictions by authors Nicola Griffith and Kelley Eskridge.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
ISBN-13
9781846315015
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95819379
Product Key Features
Book Title
Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction
Author
Veronica Hollinger, Joan Gordon, Wendy Gay Pearson
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2010
Number of Pages
297 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Volume
37
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies
Editor
Wendy Gay Pearson, Veronica Hollinger, Joan Gordon