This collection explores 'Gothic sf' from 1980-2010. Ranging across narrative media and across genres, taking in horror, sf, the Gothic, the New Weird and more, essays examine questions of genre, medical science, gender, biopower and capitalism.
Hiding to Nothing suggests that complex and damaging legacies in all their forms can create shockwaves that reverberate over a lifetime, stopping lives from reaching their full potential. Bloodfruit gives voice to the less heard narratives of infertility and difficult trajectories towards becoming, or not becoming, a 'mother'.
Always at the centre of her books and performances are the experiences of the body, and, whether she is exploring racism, violence, the experiences of diaspora communities in India, England or America, what emerges is a heart-stopping, life-affirming way of telling the near impossible-to-be-told.
Suitable for readers who have little or no training in Middle English, this book engages with the tragic implications of the chivalric love between Lancelot, Arthur and Guinevere.
This study surveys Hughes's entire achievement, including "Birthday Letters". The main purpose is to attempt an adequate reading of his poetry, revealing the underlying quest which transformed his imagination, leading him by painful stages to a vision of a world made of light.
A major, groundbreaking intervention into contemporary theoretical debates about SF. It effects a series of vital shifts in SF theory and criticism, away from prescriptively abstract dialectics of cognition and estrangement and towards the empirically grounded understanding of an amalgam of texts, practices and artefacts.
Features essays that brings together contributions by internationally recognised scholars from Britain, Germany and the USA to present and reflect upon the research on the history of the Third Reich. This book provides a fresh approach to the history of Nazism's racial policy, its social policy, its planning for war and genocide, and its legacy.