The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms

Isiah Lavender III editor Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay editor Taryne Jade Taylor editor Grace L Dillon editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:30th Oct '23

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The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms delivers a new, inclusive examination of science fiction, from close analyses of single texts to large-scale movements, providing readers with decolonized models of the future, including print, media, race, gender, and social justice.

This comprehensive overview of the field explores representations of possible futures arising from non-Western cultures and ethnic histories that disrupt the “imperial gaze”. In four parts, The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms considers the look of futures from the margins, foregrounding the issues of Indigenous groups, racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities, and any people whose stakes in the global order of envisioning futures are generally constrained due to the mechanics of our contemporary world.

The book extends current discussions in the area, looking at cutting-edge developments in the discipline of science fiction and diverse futurisms as a whole. Offering a dynamic mix of approaches and expansive perspectives, this volume will appeal to academics and researchers seeking to orient their own interventions into broader contexts.

"At the college or university level, The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms is a standalone text excellent for a Directed Study proposal of CoFuturisms at any undergraduate or graduate level as well as an extraordinarily appropriate text for World Literature or other intercultural and international studies... [the] entire Handbook may be considered a tool for sociopolitical as well as academic revolutionary thought, a disruption of disempowering assumptions and Eurocentric historicisms to suggest, implant and nurture the potential for transformative self-empowerment and culturally sensitive revolutionary thought."

--Alexis Brooks de Vita, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

ISBN: 9780367330613

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 2040g

686 pages