Speculative Imperialisms (eBook)

Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times

Susana Loza (Autor)

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2017
218 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-0797-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores the resurgence of racial masquerade in Western popular media. Through a close examination of science fiction, horror, and fantasy texts and films, it contemplates the fundamental, albeit changing, role that ethnic simulation plays in American and British cultures in a putatively postracial and postcolonial era.

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Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times explores the(settler) colonial ideologies underpinning the monstrous imaginings of contemporary popular culture in the Britain and the US. Through a close examination of District 9, Avatar, Doctor Who, Planet of the Apes, and steampunk culture, Susana Loza illuminates the durability of (settler) colonialism and how it operates through two linked yet distinct forms of racial mimicry: monsterization and minstrelsy. Speculative Imperialisms contemplates the fundamental, albeit changing, role that such racial simulations play in a putatively postracial and post-colonial era. It brings together the work on gender masquerade, racial minstrelsy, and postcolonial mimicry and puts it in dialogue with film, media, and cultural studies. This project draws upon the theoretical insights of Stuart Hall, Homi K. Bhabha, Edward Said, Philip Deloria, Michael Rogin, Eric Lott, Charles Mills, Falguni Sheth, Lorenzo Veracini, Adilifu Nama, Isiah Lavender III, Gwendolyn Foster, Marianna Torgovnick, Ann Laura Stoler, Anne McClintock, Eric Greene, Richard Dyer, and Ed Guerrero.

Autor

Susana Loza is associate professor of critical race, gender, and media studies at Hampshire College.

Inhalt

Introduction Chapter 1: Playing Alien in Post-Racial Times Chapter 2: Colonial Cosplay: Steampunk and the After-Life of Empire Chapter 3: Imperial Fictions, Post-Racial Fantasies: Doctor Who in the Age of Neoliberal Multiculturalism Chapter 4: Monkeys, Monsters, and Minstrels in Rise and Dawn of the Planetof The Apes Afterword: Trumpacolypse Now, Decolonized Tomorrows

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.12.2017
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Critical Media Studies • Film and Race • Film Studies and Race • monsters • Monster Theory • Monstrous and Otherness • Postmodern Minstrelsy • Post-Racialty • Racial Performativity • Science Fiction • Settler Colonialism • Sexual Performativity • Steampunk Imperialism
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-0797-2 / 1498507972
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-0797-4 / 9781498507974