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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"science fiction (SF)"”.
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Mirrors of the past : versions of history in science fiction and fantasy
The primary argument of this Thesis is that Science Fiction (SF) is a form of Historical Fiction, one which speculatively appropriates elements of the past in fulfilment of the ideological expectations of its genre readership. Chapter One presents this definition, reconciling it with some earlier …
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A Literary and Cultural History of Military Science Fiction and the United States of America, 1870s-2010s
… is both a literary history of the military science fiction (military SF) subgenre and a cultural history of the United States of America during the twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. This thesis academically rehabilitates a neglected literary subgenre, and utilises it to prove the …
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Your Self Again: Clones, Originals, and True Selves of Science Fiction
… identity in the light of human cloning in science fiction (SF). Its main aim is to understand how SF writers can benefit from theories of identity and characterisation to develop fictional characters in clone narratives. The thesis will engage with the history of cloning, explore the …
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Bio/Techno/Homo: a critical history of the human in Anglo-American science fiction
Science fiction (‘SF’) is often understood as a literature of radical possibilities—but to what extent do SF writers break the mould of humanist thought that has informed much of the western literary and cultural tradition? In this thesis, I will examine the concept of the ‘human’ as it has been …
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Queering the family as an act of resistance, transformation, and hope in Indigenous futurist, Afrofuturist, and New Wave feminist science fiction
… feminist, Afrofuturist, and Indigenous futurist science fiction (sf), focusing on how authors kept to the margins of the genre—women, Black, and Indigenous authors—use sf to challenge heteronormative family ideology. Although science fiction scholars have been thinking queerly about the genre …
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Toxic gardens: narratives of toxicity in twentieth-century American and British fiction
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 73155 Lift date: 2017-01-21T19:56:18Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system