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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主要作者: Wegener, Susanne
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: transcript Verlag, 2014.
叢編:American Culture Studies ; 7
在線閱讀:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=863341
書本目錄:
  • Introduction : dealing in futures
  • Are you paranoid enough? Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days and the politics of risk and speculation
  • Live on the edge I say : edgework, risk, and literary form in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange
  • Monstrous politics : epistemological empowerment, natural science, and new territories of empire in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl
  • Towards a poetics of risk and speculation.