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Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Works Cited
Part One: In the Margins
Heterotopian Possibilities in Science Fictions by Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett, Samuel Delany and Ursula K. Le Guin
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Acceptance of the Marginalized in Marge Piercy’s He, She, It and Melissa Scott’s Trouble and Her Friends
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Anathem’s Flows of Power: State Space and Nomadology on a Cloistered Planet
Notes
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Part Two: Shifting Worlds Through Re-Creation
Karel Čapek’s War with the Newts: Deterritorializing Land and Language
Plotting the War with the Newts: Reterritorializing History and Taxonomizing Difference
The Attraction of Affiliation: Reterritorializing/Deterritorializing Land and Language
Conclusion: “transitional […] zones of indiscernibility”
Notes
Works Cited
Mary Shelley’s Literary Laboratory: Frankenstein and the Emergence of the Modern Laboratory in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Frankenstein’s Cinematic Laboratory
Laboratory Space: A Brief History
Latour and the Laboratory: The Body as Instrument of Literary Labor
The Space of Literature
The Creature’s Reading and the Social Laboratory
Notes
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Ecotopian London: Morris’s Geography of Conservation
Notes
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Part Three: Re-Viewing Damaged Worlds Through Quests
Underworlds of Despair and Hope in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
“Darkness coming fast”: Creation and Destruction
“The crushing black vacuum of the universe”: Despair
“Warm at last”: Hope
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The Silence of the Subaltern: The Rejection of History and Language in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome
Empirical Episteme and Its Subversion
Reclaiming the Decentered Subaltern
The Subaltern’s Silence
Silence and the Narrative
History as Fiction
Notes
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A Case of Terraphilia: Longing for Place and Community in Philip K Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Notes
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Discursive Transgressions and Ideological Negotiations: From Orwell’s 1984 to Butler’s Parable of the Sower
The Dystopian Construct: Creating a Nightmare
The Emergence of a New Discourse: The Critical Dystopia
Epistolary Form, Discursivity, and Ideological Negotiations
Discourses of the Future
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower: “The Only Lasting Truth Is Change”
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About the Contributors
List of Names and Terms
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