Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
John Rieder
- This
- groundbreaking
- study
- explores
- science
- fiction's
- complex
- relationship
- with
- colonialism
- and
- imperialism.In
- the
- first
- full-length
- study
- of
- the
- subject,
- John
- Rieder
- argues
- that
- the
- history
- and
- ideology
- of
- colonialism
- are
- crucial
- components
- of
- science
- fiction's
- displaced
- references
- to
- history
- and
- its
- engagement
- in
- ideological
- production.
- With
- original
- scholarship
- and
- theoretical
- sophistication,
- he
- offers
- new
- and
- innovative
- readings
- of
- both
- acknowledged
- classics
- and
- rediscovered
- gems.Rider
- proposes
- that
- the
- basic
- texture
- of
- much
- science
- fiction—in
- particular
- its
- vacillation
- between
- fantasies
- of
- discovery
- and
- visions
- of
- disaster—is
- established
- by
- the
- profound
- ambivalence
- that
- pervades
- colonial
- accounts
- of
- the
- exotic
- “other.”Includes
- discussion
- of
- works
- by
- Edwin
- A.
- Abbott,
- Edward
- Bellamy,
- Edgar
- Rice
- Burroughs,
- John
- W.
- Campbell,
- George
- Tomkyns
- Chesney,
- Arthur
- Conan
- Doyle,
- H.
- Rider
- Haggard,
- Edmond
- Hamilton,
- W.
- H.
- Hudson,
- Richard
- Jefferies,
- Henry
- Kuttner,
- Alun
- Llewellyn,
- Jack
- London,
- A.
- Merritt,
- Catherine
- L.
- Moore,
- William
- Morris,
- Garrett
- P.
- Serviss,
- Mary
- Shelley,
- Olaf
- Stapledon,
- and
- H.
- G. Wells.
