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 |
| Jezik: | engleski |
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transcript Verlag,
2014.
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| Serija: | American Culture Studies ;
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| Online pristup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=863341 |
Sadržaj:
- 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.