Science fiction and speculative fiction : : challenging genres / / edited by P.L. Thomas.

• TeilnehmendeR: Thomas, Paul Lee, 1961-
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Critical literacy teaching series, challenging authors and genre ; vol. 3.
• Physical Description: vii, 215p. ;; ill. (b&w)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction: Challenging Genres -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Challenging Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction -- 1. A Case for SF and Speculative Fiction: An Introductory Consideration -- 2. SF and Speculative Novels: Confronting the Science and the Fiction -- 3. SF Novels and Sociological Experimentation: Examining Real World Dynamics through Imaginative Displacement -- 4. "Peel[ing] apart Layers of Meaning" in SF Short Fiction: Inviting Students to Extrapolate on the Effects of Change -- 5. Reading Alien Suns: Using SF Film to Teach a Political Literacy of Possibility -- 6. Singularity, Cyborgs, Drones, Replicants and Avatars: Coming to Terms with the Digital Self -- 7. Troubling Notions of Reality in Caprica: Examining "Paradoxical States" of Being -- 8. "I Try to RememberWho I Am and Who I Am Not": The Subjugation of Nature and Women in The Hunger Games -- 9. "It's a Bird . . . It's a Plane . . . It's . . . a Comic Book in the Classroom?": Truth: Red, White, and Black as Test Case for Teaching Superhero Comics -- 10. The Enduring Power of SF, Speculative and Dystopian Fiction: Final Thoughts -- Author Biographies.