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OverviewThis book argues that Ann Leckie’s novel Ancillary Justice offers a devastating rebuke to the political, social, cultural, and economic injustices of American imperialism in the post 9/11 era. Following an introductory overview, the study offers four chapters that examine key themes central to the novel: gender, imperial economics, race, and revolutionary agency. Ancillary Justice’s exploration of these four themes, and the way it reveals how these issues are all fundamentally entangled with the problem of contemporary imperial power, warrants its status as a canonical work of science fiction for the twenty-first century. The book concludes with a brief interview with Leckie herself touching on each of the topics examined during the preceding chapters. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David M. HigginsPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2022 Weight: 0.282kg ISBN: 9783031182600ISBN 10: 303118260 Pages: 92 Publication Date: 29 November 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1 Introduction Some Nobody Cook’s Daughter Ancillary Justice: An Overview Who Is Ann Leckie? Critical Perspectives The Problem of Empire References 2 “She Was Probably Male”: Gender and Coloniality Gender, Sex, and Pronouns An Agender Perspective The Universal She? Pronouns and Coloniality References 3 “Luxury Always Comes at Someone Else’s Expense”:Empire, Economics, and Addiction Imperial Allegories Buffer Zones and Homeland Security Garsedd: The Radchaai Vietnam Economic Addiction and Imperial Expansion Permanent Unevenness Imperialism and Addiction References4 “You Are If I Say You Are”: Race, Citizenship, and Imperial Personhood Race and Empire Dinner Table Racism Cultural Racism Not Quite Human Enough Citizenship and Personhood Imperial Sovereignty The Politics of Recognition References 5 “Save It for When It’ll Make a Difference”: Cynical Reason and Revolutionary Agency Cynical Reason Revolutionary Snap Currents of Agency Cascades of Affect Everything Makes a Difference Tipping Points and Dynamic Tensions Reactionary Snap Love and Truth References 6 “Doing Something Is Always Better than Doing Nothing”: A Short Interview with Ann LeckieReviews“I am a huge fan of Leckie’s IMPERIAL RADCH trilogy and I found Higgins’s Companion an excellent read … for its parallel introduction to critical postcolonial questions about the workings of empire in the twenty-first century.” (Veronica Hollinger, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 50, 2023) Author InformationDavid M. Higgins is a Senior Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and he is the Chair of the English Department at Inver Hills College in Minnesota, where he teaches classes on science fiction, graphic novels, American literature, and composition. He is the author of Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood, which won the 2021 Science Fiction Research Association Book Award. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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