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
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=863341
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  • 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.