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Fantasy : how it works
Fantasy has become a dominant mode of storytelling and it mirrors our experiences and anxieties better than any representation of the merely real. This book poses two central questions about fantastic storytelling: how can it be meaningful if it doesn't claim to represent things as they are, and what kind of change can it make in the world?
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Fantasy, Colonialism, and the Middle Landscape
Weaving together Anglo-American folklore, the Indian captivity narrative genre, and science fiction and fantasy with Midwest settings, Attebery explores the lasting influence of the pastoral chronotope of the “middle landscape” and its entanglement with colonialism and empire. Scholar Guest of Honor Address, Mythcon 53.
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Hainish novels & stories
\"For the first time, all of Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish novels and stories are brought together in a single edition, complete and with new introductions by the author. Beginning in the 1960s and 70s, these remarkable works redrew the map of modern science fiction. In such visionary masterworks as the Nebula and Hugo Award winners The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, Le Guin imagined a galactic confederation of human colonies founded by the planet Hain--an array of worlds whose divergent societies was the result of both evolution and genetic engineering.\"-- Publisher's website.
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Fantasy, Colonialism, and the Middle Landscape
Weaving together Anglo-American folklore, the Indian captivity narrative genre, and science fiction and fantasy with Midwest settings, Attebery explores the lasting influence of the pastoral chronotope of the \"middle landscape\" and its entanglement with colonialism and empire. Scholar Guest of Honor Address, Mythcon 53.
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Stories about stories : fantasy and the remaking of myth
Drawing on literary history and folklore, Stories about Stories offers an introduction to the fantasy genre's popularity and cultural importance. Reading works by figures such as J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Ursula K. Le Guin, Alan Garner, Amitav Ghosh, and many others, Attebery explores both the familiar and the forgotten to produce the first comprehensive look at fantasy's uses of myth.
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Always coming home
A master builder of faraway, fantastic worlds, Ursula K. Le Guin, at mid-career, found in her native California the inspiration for what was to be her greatest literary construction: nothing less than an entire ethnography of a future society, the Kesh, living in a post-apocalyptic Napa Valley. This Library of America edition of her 1985 classic Always Coming Home, prepared in close consultation with the author, features new material added by Le Guin just before her death, including for the first time the complete text of the novella-within-the-novel, Dangerous People. Survivors of an ecological catastrophe brought on by heedless industrialization, the Kesh live in hard-won balance with their environment and between genders. Le Guin meditates here more deeply and more personally on themes explored earlier in The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed. Always Coming Home is comprised of \"translations\" of a wide array of Kesh writings: a three-part narrative by a woman named Stone Telling recounting her travels beyond the Valley, where she lives with the mysterious, patriarchal Condor people; \"Chapter 2\" of a novel by the brilliant Kesh writer Wordriver, in which a woman's disappearance reveals hidden tensions within and beyond her clan; poems; folk tales for adults and children; verse dramas; recipes; even an alphabet and glossary of the Kesh language. To this extraordinary architecture, Le Guin has added a special section of new material, including the two \"missing\" chapters of the Kesh novel Dangerous People, newly discovered poetry and meditations of the Kesh people, and a guide to their syntax. With evocative illustrations by artist Margaret Chodos-Irvine, and Le Guin's own hand-drawn maps, the cumulative effect is, in the words of Samuel R. Delany, \"Le Guin's most consistently lyric and luminous book.\"
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Introduction: But Why Does It Have to Be Political?
Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Libba Bray, Beauty Queens Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone Eric Gansworth, Apple (Skin to the Core) Of these, I had only read three and previously taught two. The most political thing about the reading list is that the protagonists-and the authors-are all other than straight, white, and male. First up is Alejandro Soifer's article on Argentine science fiction's resurgence in the wake of that nation's turn-of-the-millennium crisis. [...]Christopher Robinson looks at a pair of horror films: 1992's Candyman contextualized by its 2021 remake.
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Introduction: Awards and Prospects
Looking at China Miéville and Kelly Link's gloriously disorienting fiction, often classed as examples of the New Weird, Budruweit applies a reading strategy that Rita Felski designates as \"postcritical,\" meaning that the reader has been through the wringer of extreme (and Postmodern) skepticism and come out the other side with, as Budruweit says, \"more trusting, affirmative modes of engagement.\" [...]Audrey Taylor and Stefan Ekman take a look at a fantasy convention-one common enough to have been skewered by Diana Wynne Jones in her Tough Guide to Fantasyland-that simultaneously looks back to traditional wisdom and ahead to the challenges of a quest narrative. Taylor, author of a recent and much-needed book on Patricia McKillip, and Ekman, whose study of fantasy maps has become a critical standard, here investigate the meaning and function of \"world-intrinsic epigraphs,\" meaning quotes whose reliability and antiquity are well-known to those inside a fantasy world but must be taken on faith by readers because the texts they quote from are imaginary.
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