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How to Imagine the End of the World: Narratives of Disaster in Speculative Fiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	How to Imagine the End of the World: Narratives of Disaster in Speculative Fiction./
Author:	Ong, Amanda.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
Description:	158 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-02A.
Subject:	Literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30637783
ISBN:	9798380153027

How to Imagine the End of the World: Narratives of Disaster in Speculative Fiction.
Ong, Amanda.

How to Imagine the End of the World: Narratives of Disaster in Speculative Fiction. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 158 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2023.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Speculative fiction, a genre rooted in envisioning the future, is an ideal site through which we can both investigate the limitations of our imaginations and study authors who provide more liberatory constructions of alternative futures. In this project, I explore how disaster is a purposeful feature of neoliberalism that allows for constant capitalization and profiting from destruction. Specifically, my dissertation examines representations of disasters from the 1990s on to show how disaster can use spectacle to represent economic anxieties while also a form of creative destruction that clears the ground for more radical ways of envisioning the future.Then, I engage with neoliberalism not just as an economic system but a form of governmentality that creates new subjectivities. Imagining new futures outside of neoliberalism is therefore not just a matter of envisioning an alternative economic system but also conceiving of radical relational models that go beyond the neoliberal focus on individual exceptionalism and personal responsibility.I highlight the various sociopolitical moments and historical contexts of each text in order to demonstrate how speculative fiction, even with its emphasis on futurity, is also always engaging with issues and anxieties of the present day. Specifically, my last two chapters turn toward 1990s Los Angeles as a case study that exemplifies the economic impact of globalization and subsequent deindustrialization. Additionally, the city's diverse and multicultural population as well as its natural disaster prone geography make it a generative site through which to analyze how uneven geographical development can cause the effects of disaster to be distributed in varying ways.{A0}

ISBN: 9798380153027Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature.
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