Restless Subjects in Rigid Systems : Risk and Speculation in Millennial Fictions of the North American Pacific Rim.

The anticipatory logic of speculation and preemptive politics of risk are increasingly gaining significance in a globalizing neoliberal world. This study traces risk and speculation as aesthetic and political-economic strategies in factual and fictional discourses emerging at the North American Paci...

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Tác giả chính: Wegener, Susanne
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: transcript Verlag, 2014.
Loạt:American Culture Studies ; 7
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Tóm tắt:The anticipatory logic of speculation and preemptive politics of risk are increasingly gaining significance in a globalizing neoliberal world. This study traces risk and speculation as aesthetic and political-economic strategies in factual and fictional discourses emerging at the North American Pacific Rim within a decade around 2000. Its exemplary close readings in particular focus on three fictional texts (Kathryn Bigelow's Hollywood film »Strange Days±, 1995, Karen T. Yamashita's novel »Tropic of Orange±, 1997, and Larissa Lai's novel »Salt Fish Girl±, 2002) whose intricate aesthetics pass.
Mô tả vật lý:1 online resource
số ISBN:1306996821
9781306996822
383942416X
9783839424162