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  • Care Work, Age, and Culture in Butler’s Parable Series by Derek Thiess, Femspec Issue 15

    Femspec Articles, #54

    by Derek Thiess ...
    Series Book 54 - Femspec Articles
    With the growing popularity of post-apocalyptic scenarios, not just in SF literature but also in reality television shows about survivalism such as Doomsday Preppers (2011), Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998) are more relevant than ever. ... Read more

    $15.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader

    Reading Science Fiction and Historiography

    by Derek Thiess ...
    The writer of alternate history asks “what if?” What if one historical event were different, what would the world look like today? In a similar way, the postmodern philosopher of history suggests that history is literature, or that if we read certain historical details differently we would get a distinctly different interpretation of past events. While the science fiction alternate history means ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction

    A Biopsychosocial Approach

    by Derek Thiess ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Following scholarship on gender in science fiction, this book explores the limits of considering age as a social construction, positing that an acknowledgement of aged bodies necessarily changes the way we read both age and science fiction. The volume employs contemporary clinical psychology, the biopsychosocial model, to demonstrate that age is an important and neglected topic relevant to the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Bi

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    The Conflict Between Word and Image

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