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Biopunk Worlds of Paolo Bacigalupi

Biopunk Worlds of Paolo Bacigalupi

Hardcover

Series: English Literature and Culture in Context, Book 5

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3631768516
ISBN13: 9783631768518
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Mar 29 2019
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book explores literary techniques that allow science fiction literature to be a platform for activist interventions. The focus is on the body and food as storyworld existents in selected texts by Paolo Bacigalupi, whose writing is directed towards raising awareness of the environmental crisis. The book opens with a discussion of the position of science fiction as popular literature, genealogical debates, genre conventions of cyberpunk and biopunk, cognitive estrangement, metaphoric strategies and metonymic tactics. Then, it undertakes an analysis of Bacigalupi's texts (The Windup Girl, Small Offerings , and Fluted Girl , among others) in the context of such ecocritical concepts as hyperexuberance, Capitalocene, and the temporal dimension of the environmental catastrophe.

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