What do we mean by this odd subject, Speculative Fiction? If we’re dealing with extrapolative fictions, expressly concerned with imagining alternate futures, presents and pasts, when does now begin and end?…
View More Contemporary Speculative FictionAuthor: Mark P. Williams
Dr Mark P. Williams is currently a Teaching Fellow at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany, where he has worked since 2014. He previously taught at the University of East Anglia (UK) and Victoria University of Wellington (Aotearoa New Zealand), and has also been a political reporter for Scoop Independent Media in the NZ Parliamentary Press Gallery. His PhD, Radical Fantasy: A Study of Left Radical Politics in the Fantasy Writing of Michael Moorcock, Angela Carter, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison and China Miéville, was awarded from the University of East Anglia.
Speculative Resistance in Lost Girls
This article will suggest that Alan Moore’s perspective can usefully be considered as part of an underground aesthetic which declares the necessity of solidarity of experience with all other groups…
View More Speculative Resistance in Lost GirlsInsurgent Subliteratures: Fictions of Resistance
This article is concerned with the fictional forms of cultural resistance and experiment of the last twenty years, which I have called alternative fictioneers…
View More Insurgent Subliteratures: Fictions of ResistanceAlternative Fictioneers
Outside of academic postmodernism, around the edges of genre fiction, and beyond the purview of the mainstream literary novel…
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