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Italian Science Fiction: The Other in Literature and Film

Italian Science Fiction: The Other in Literature and Film

Brioni, Simone
Comberiati, Daniele

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Global Science Fiction

Literary CriticismAnthropology

ISBN10: 303019325X
ISBN13: 9783030193256
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jul 30 2019
Pages: 289
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book explores Italian science fiction from 1861, the year of Italy's unification, to the present day, focusing on how this genre helped shape notions of Otherness and Normalness. In particular, Italian Science Fiction draws upon critical race studies, postcolonial theory, and feminist studies to explore how migration, colonialism, multiculturalism, and racism have been represented in genre film and literature. Topics include the role of science fiction in constructing a national identity; the representation and self-representation of alien immigrants in Italy; the creation of internal Others, such as southerners and Roma; the intersections of gender and race discrimination; and Italian science fiction's transnational dialogue with foreign science fiction. This book reveals that though it is arguably a minor genre in Italy, science fiction offers an innovative interpretive angle for rethinking Italian history and imagining future change in Italian society.

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