Restless Subjects in Rigid Systems : : Risk and Speculation in Millennial Fictions of the North American Pacific Rim / / Susanne Wegener.
The anticipatory logic of speculation and preemptive politics of risk are increasingly gaining significance in a globalizing neoliberal world. This study traces risk and speculation as aesthetic and political-economic strategies in factual and fictional discourses emerging at the North American Paci...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1. Aufl. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Culture Studies ;
7 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENT
- 1. INTRODUCTION: DEALING IN FUTURES
- 2. ARE YOU PARANOID ENOUGH? KATHRYN BIGELOW’S STRANGE DAYS AND THE POLITICS OF RISK AND SPECULATION
- 3. LIVE ON THE EDGE I SAY: EDGEWORK, RISK, AND LITERARY FORM IN KAREN TEI YAMASHITA’S TROPIC OF ORANGE
- 4. MONSTROUS POLITICS: EPISTEMOLOGICAL EMPOWERMENT, NATURAL SCIENCE, AND NEW TERRITORIES OF EMPIRE IN LARISSA LAI’S SALT FISH GIRL
- 5. TOWARDS A POETICS OF RISK AND SPECULATION
- 6. WORKS CITED