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  • Italian Science Fiction: The Other in Literature and Film

    Italian Science Fiction by Brioni, Simone; Comberiati, Daniele;

    The Other in Literature and Film

    Series: Studies in Global Science Fiction;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1st ed. 2019
    • Publisher Springer International Publishing
    • Date of Publication 30 July 2019
    • Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book

    • ISBN 9783030193256
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages289 pages
    • Size 210x148 mm
    • Weight 529 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations XVI, 289 p. 19 illus. Illustrations, black & white
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    This book explores Italian science fiction from 1861, the year of Italy’s unification, to the present day, focusing on how this genre helped shape notions of Otherness and Normalness. In particular, Italian Science Fiction draws upon critical race studies, postcolonial theory, and feminist studies to explore how migration, colonialism, multiculturalism, and racism have been represented in genre film and literature. Topics include the role of science fiction in constructing a national identity; the representation and self-representation of “alien” immigrants in Italy; the creation of internal “Others,” such as southerners and Roma; the intersections of gender and race discrimination; and Italian science fiction’s transnational dialogue with foreign science fiction. This book reveals that though it is arguably a minor genre in Italy, science fiction offers an innovative interpretive angle for rethinking Italian history and imagining future change in Italian society.

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    Table of Contents:

    1. The Other in Italian Science Fiction.- 2. The Age of Exploration and the Creation of a National Identity.- 3. Futurism and Fascist Science Fiction.- 4. After the Apocalypse: Hybridity and Civil Rights.- 5. The Internal Other: Representing Roma.- 6. Aliens in a Country of Immigration.- 7. Dystopic Worlds and the Fear of Multiculturalism.- 7. The Questione Settentrionale: Reconfiguring Separatism.- 9. Future Pasts: Revisiting the Colonial Legacy in Alternate History Novels.- 10. Afterword: A Genre Across Cultures.

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