The Postnational Fantasy: Essays on Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction

by Swaralipi Nandi, Masood Ashraf Raja, Jason W. Ellis

In twelve critical and interdisciplinary essays, this text examines the relationship between the fantastic in novels, movies and video games and real-world debates about nationalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism. Topics covered include science fiction and postcolonialism, issues of ethnicity, nation and transnational discourse. Altogether, these essays chart a new discursive space, where postcolonial theory and science fiction and fantasy studies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786461411
• ISBN13: 9780786461417
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher