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Exploring the Fantastic

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The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as e...
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  • 24 July 2018
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The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The contributions pinpoint and discuss current developments in theory and practice by offering enlightening snapshots of the contemporary Anglophone landscape of research in the fantastic. The authors' arguments and analyses thus give new impetus to the field's theoretical and methodological approaches, its textual materials, its main interests, and its crucial findings.
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Price: $45.00
Pages: 300
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Lettre
Publication Date: 24 July 2018
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837640274
Format: Paperback
BISACs: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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»Das Buch ist vor allem deswegen lesenswert, weil die Autoren aus so vielen verschiedenen Ländern stammen und weil sie sich zu einem großen Teil mit Werken und Themen befassen, über die anderswo kaum etwas zu lesen ist.«

Ina Batzke is a lecturer and research assistant at Münster University and visiting scholar at UC Santa Barbara, California (2016-2018). Her research interests include Migration and Refugee Literature, Life Writing, Law and Literature, and Ethnic Studies.
Eric C. Erbacher is an American Studies scholar based in Münster, Germany. His research interests include Urban Studies, Media Studies, and Cultural Studies, with a focus on the intersection of these fields with issues of Visual Culture, especially photography, Popular Culture, and Class.
Linda M. Heß is a lecturer (wiss. Mitarbeiterin) and post-doctoral candidate at the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Frankfurt/Main. Her main research and teaching interests are located in the fields of Queer Studies, Aging Studies, Science Fiction, Modernism, and Gender Studies. She is a member of the Governing Council of the North American Network of Aging Studies (NANAS).
Corinna Lenhardt, born 1982, received her PhD in American studies from Universität Münster, Germany. Her research and teaching interests include African American and ethnic studies, race, gender, and popular culture. Her book »Savage Horrors« was awarded the Dissertationspreis 2020/2021 der Gesellschaft fur Fantastikforschung e.V.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 7
Belief, Potentiality, and the Supernatural: Mapping the Fantastic 17
Fantasy without Fantasy: Politics, Genre, and Media in the Fiction of M. John Harrison 37
Is the Fantastic Really Fantastic? 61
Insurgent Utopias: How to Recognize the Knock at the Door 91
Crossing Impossible Boundaries? Fantastic Narrative and Ideology 117
Questioning Mononormativity: A Future of Fantastic Scholarship in Liminal Identities 141
Organic Fantasy and the Alien Archetype in Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon 165
Latino/a Magical Realism and American Superhero Fiction as Constitutive Agents in the Negotiation of Dominican-American Identity in Junot Díaz' The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 189
Flights of Fancy, Secondary Worlds and Blank Slates: Relations between the Fantastic and the Real 213
Creepypastas: How Counterterrorist Fantasies (Re-)Create Horror Traditions for Today's Digital Communities 239
"All the Better to Eat You With": The Eroticization of the Werewolf and the Rise of Monster Porn in the Digital Age 269
About the Authors 295