The Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction

Auteur

Maria Lindgren Leavenworth Professor of Modern English Literature, Department of Language Studies, Umeå University.

Texte du rabat

The Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction explores the ways in which the Arctic is imagined and what function it is made to serve in a selection of speculative fictions: non-mimetic works that start from the implied question 'what if?'

Résumé
The Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction explores the ways in which the Arctic is imagined and what function it is made to serve in a selection of speculative fictions: non-mimetic works that start from the implied question 'what if?'

Contenu

Introduction: Aesthetics, Instabilities, and Imaginings

1 Alternative Worlds and Histories

2 Preserved in Ice

3 Arctic Futures

Conclusion: Writing and Imagining the Arctic