Building Bridges between Cultures in Ian McDonald's Science Fiction - by Jerome Winter (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- This book is a career-long retrospective of the Irish writer Ian McDonald and his complex, compelling representation of our contemporary global condition.
- About the Author: Jerome Winter is Full-Time Lecturer at the University of California, Riverside.
- 248 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Science Fiction + Fantasy
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About the Book
The book argues that Ian McDonald's globalized science fiction functions as a complex, hybrid fusion of magic realism and SF literature and culture.Book Synopsis
This book is a career-long retrospective of the Irish writer Ian McDonald and his complex, compelling representation of our contemporary global condition.
Ian McDonald is a celebrated writer within the science-fiction community whose rich and urgent body of works, span over a quarter of a century. The author claims McDonald's work functions as vital, troubling allegories, which both refuse the Orientalist euphemizing of colonial atrocities, while still at the same time envisioning a transformative global alterity, seeking an ethical and political embrace of systematically silenced subaltern voices in the neoliberal world-system. The book follows McDonald as the globe-trotting writer travels from Ireland to Kenya, to India, to Brazil, to Turkey, to a proliferating multiverse and beyond. Along the way, the author analyzes McDonald's science fiction as a salient contribution to the flourishing cosmopolitan literature of postcolonial developing nations at the crossroads of the global imaginary.About the Author
Jerome Winter is Full-Time Lecturer at the University of California, Riverside.Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .56 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.09 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 248
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: Science Fiction + Fantasy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Hardcover
Author: Jerome Winter
Language: English
Street Date: September 18, 2025
TCIN: 1006069826
UPC: 9781666956801
Item Number (DPCI): 247-00-5186
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 1.09 pounds
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