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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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transcript Verlag,
2014.
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| Series: | American Culture Studies ;
7 |
| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=863341 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 1306996821 9781306996822 383942416X 9783839424162 |