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31 Jan 2025
What would it look like for dominant-language fantasy to engage with the living cultures, contemporary politics, and modern histories of Celtic-language communities?
30 Jan 2025
It’d be an understatement to say that The Return of the King fundamentally altered my brain chemistry.
29 Jan 2025
The key is to evade the rigid and hegemonic structures of Western-oriented writing.
28 Jan 2025
We can see conservative values, fears, and hopes playing out in many Western science fiction works—and patriarchal ideals around motherhood, reproduction, and family are everywhere.
27 Jan 2025
Believe me, it was obvious from the get-go who was endangered by 1967’s Dangerous Visions.
25 Nov 2024
Palestinian/Jordanian author Ibrahim Nasrallah is one of the novelists who critically engaged with the climate crisis in Dog War II (2016), which won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) in 2018.
30 Sep 2024
In colonial south India and in other parts of South Asia, then, there existed established theories of imagination and the mind as well as established literary traditions of fantasy that make the question of the known and unknown, the real and unreal, an impossible one.
26 Aug 2024
Perhaps, then, Africanfuturism does not require a Western sense of the future, because Africanfuturism is also now.
29 Jul 2024
Dune: Part II opens with the image of a fetus. It is a CGI rendition of Lady Jessica Atreides’s unborn daughter in the womb, at an undisclosed gestational age but not yet fully formed. In the book, we don’t see Alia until later, as a young child. Yet we see the fetus repeatedly throughout the movie, which is more and more developed in each visual. In the 1970s, feminist scholar Rosalind Petchesky critiqued the use of fetal visuals, such as the Star Child in 2001: A Space Odyssey, for feeding into anti-abortion narratives.[1] In Petchesky’s words, fetal images have “symbolic import” in societies that are hostile towards abortion and reproductive autonomy.[2]
24 Jun 2024
Speculative poetry has the power to detach and disarm, to tease and pull, to play and emancipate.
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