Demand the Impossible

Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination

von Tom Moylan

334 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Although published in 1986, Demand the Impossible was written from inside the oppositional political culture of the 1970s. Reading works by Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Samuel R. Delany as indicative texts in the intertext of utopian science fiction, Tom Moylan originated the concept of the «critical utopia» as both a periodizing and conceptual tool for capturing the creative and critical capabilities of the utopian imagination and utopian agency. This Ralahine Classics edition includes the original text along with a new essay by Moylan (on Aldous Huxley’s Island) and a set of reflections on the book by leading utopian and science fiction scholars.

• Reihe: Ralahine Utopian Studies
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1900 bis 2000
• ISBN: 9783034307529
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.06.2014
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers