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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"Speculative fiction"”.
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Post-apartheid Speculative Fiction and the South African City
This thesis examines the role that speculative fiction plays in imagining the city spaces of the future. Considering the rapid pace of change that has marked post-apartheid South Africa as an impetus for emerging literary traditions within contemporary South African speculative fiction, the …
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Black Cyborgs: Blackness Narratives in Technology, Speculative Fiction, and Digital Cultures
… draws from the deep well of Black science fiction, original interviews with Black science fiction authors, and popular media case studies and analysis to generate new discourses about Black people and technology. Exploring the ways Black people have taken up both science fiction and …
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Gathering Futures: Speculative Fiction as a Map for Transforming the Climate Crisis
… predictive futures unintentionally imagined in speculative fiction can inspire new systems of surviving the climate crisis. While environmental literature warned of this crisis, climate change has outpaced warning. Indeed, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reiterates that the …
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Everybody died on the shortest day – a collection of short speculative fiction
… collection of short stories within the genre of speculative fiction. The collection is accompanied by a brief critical reflective essay. The stories themselves are all set in Cape Town, on actual places I see every day, but with imaginative twists in the plot, narrative and characterisation …
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The Little Weird: Self and Consciousness in Contemporary, Small-press, Speculative Fiction
… explores how contemporary, small-press, speculative fiction deviates from other genres in depicting the processes of consciousness in narrative. I study how the confluence of contemporary cognitive theory and experimental, small-press, speculative fiction has produced a new narrative …
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Pop Potentiality: Renegotiating Networks of Power and Relation Through Contemporary Speculative Fiction
… critical eye to various popular media forms and speculative genres to examine how new and rapidly evolving narrative modes circulate concepts about power and relationality in the American cultural consciousness. The creators I include in "Pop Potentiality" leverage their position in the cultural …
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Walking the Tightrope: Selfhood and Speculative Fiction in Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid
… multi-media work Metropolis can be read as a speculative fiction text. In my work, I examine the ways in which Monáe uses the structure of her second album The ArchAndroid and the music, lyrics, and dance of her video "Tightrope" to contribute to her underlying narrative. The ArchAndroid …
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An Africentric Reading Protocol: The Speculative Fiction Of Octavia Butler And Tananarive Due
<p>This examination of Africentric speculative fiction (ASF) applies an Africentric reading protocol to selected works of Octavia E. Butler and Tananarive Due. Butler's Parable Series and Due's African Immortals Series are examined using seven elements of Africentric narrative specific to cultural …
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Re-Imagining America : rural futurism, speculative fiction, And reckoning with a new era
… communicating them to a broader audience through fiction, I propose we may better understand, collectively, how to enact our agency in the present to address these challenges head-on. In this thesis, I argue for the practice of imagination through the lenses of three great challenges that we face …
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Who Speaks Truth to Fiction? Scientific Authority and Social Difference in Speculative Fiction
The term "science fiction" has in itself a contradiction: if science is truth, and fiction is make-believe, how can the two come together? The authors, readers, and fans of science fiction have come together to create a set of informal rules for how to deal with this contradiction, allowing …
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SOME OF US ARE STARING AT THE STARS: SPECULATIVE FICTION, FANDOM, AND TRANS IMAGINATION
Some of us are staring at the stars: Speculative Fiction, Fandom, and Trans Imagination takes up the multiple ways that trans and nonbinary people have used speculative fiction as a survival strategy and worldbuilding tool. Through engagement with trans and nonbinary fans and creators of …
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Mirroring Financial Speculation and Late Capitalism Through Speculative Fiction: Worker Gullibility and Guilt as Re-imagination of Human Value
… story “Standard Loneliness Package” from the speculative fiction collection Sorry Please Thank You features a worker who conforms to the cultural logic of Wall Street and late capitalism. However, the privilege of working in a tech company in an up-and-coming industry does not shield him from …
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Introduction to magic & thaumaturgy
This thesis consists of six pieces of short speculative fiction, along with a short craft essay titled, “Affect and Interiority: Tools of Characterization in Speculative Fiction.” The short stories are rooted within an individual character’s encounter with the spectacular, specifically focusing on …
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The Longest Road: Tales of the Mysterious and Supernatural
Speculative fiction.
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The memory of mythmaking: Transgenerational trauma and disability as a collective experience in Afrofuturist storytelling
… disability, and myth, particularly within Black speculative fiction, Afrofuturism, and Africanfuturism. Through the lenses of critical race theory, trauma theory, disability studies, and feminist theory, I will closely analyze how myth functions across five Black speculative fiction novels. I …
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Shrap[no]babble
… exploring the sub-genres of science fiction and magic realism, while also delving into hope-punk, urban fantasy, and post-apocalyptic fiction. Character-driven narratives are at the heart of these tales, which are crafted with lyrical, literary prose to create an engaging reading …
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Neo Salt Road: A Story of Salt
This thesis is a speculative fiction exploring the implications of salt-battery technology as alternative energy storage systems. These energy storage systems are posed to replace nuclear energy use in a highly seismic Japan. The speculative fiction draws inspiration from two seminal Japanese …
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When Trying to Reach Zombies and Other Stories
… stories and a novella that focuses on Christian speculative fiction. The collection uses the themes and images from Christianity and the tools of speculative fiction to tell stories. In “When Trying to Reach Zombies,” zombies are able to come back to life through Christian conversion. “Smokin’ …
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