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