[ecrea] New book: Gothic Science Fiction: 1980-2010

Gothic Science Fiction: 1980-2010

Sara Wasson and Emily Alder

The essays in this collection examine interpretations across genre, form, and discipline, as well as revealing a buoyant field of research in contemporary Gothic and science fiction studies. The collection ranges across narrative media – in the form of literature, film, graphic novels, trading card games – and across genre – in the form of horror, science fiction, Gothic, New Weird and more. Bringing together distinguished contributors, the essays explore questions of genre, medical science, gender, biopower, capitalism, with Gothic science fiction texts understood as uniquely inflected for their time and place.

Contents
Part I: Redefining Genres
Chapter 1. “In the Zone: Topologies of Genre Weirdness” by Roger Luckhurst
Chapter 2: “Zombie Death Drive: Between Gothic and Science Fiction” by Fred Botting
Part II: Biopower&  Capital
Chapter 3: “‘Death is Irrelevant’: Gothic Science Fiction and the Biopolitics of Empire” by Aris Mousoutzanis
Chapter 4: “‘A Butcher’s Shop where the Meat Still Moved’: Gothic Doubles, Organ Harvesting and Human Cloning” by Sara Wasson
Chapter 5: “Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos, or the Pleasures of Impurity” by Laurence Davies
Chapter 6: “Infected with Life: Neo-Supernaturalism and the Gothic Zombie” by Gwyneth Peaty
Chapter 7: “Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap Cycle” by Emily Alder
Part III: Gender and Genre
Chapter 8: “The Superheated, Superdense Prose of David Conway: Gender and Subjectivity Beyond The Starry Wisdom” by Mark P. Williams
Chapter 9: “Spatialized Ontologies: Toni Morrison’s Science Fiction Traces in Gothic Spaces” by Jerrilyn McGregory
Part IV: Strange Cities, Strange Temporalities
Chapter 10: “The Gothic Punk Milieu in Popular Narrative Fictions” by Nickianne Moody
Chapter 11: “Gothic Science Fiction in the Steampunk Graphic Novel: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” by Laura Hilton

Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 41
ISBN 9781846317071 • £65.00 hardback
Publication date: November 2011
http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/publication.asp?idProduct=4011


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