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Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier SF by William H Katerberg HC
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Item specifics
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- Book Title
- Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier SF
- Era
- 2000s
- Original Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780700616091
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
ISBN-10
0700616098
ISBN-13
9780700616091
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66258359
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
294 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Future West : Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction
Subject
Science Fiction & Fantasy, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY)
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2008-029035
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Will Katerberg boldly ventures across the divides among history, literature, and political theory to explore ways in which the American West has embodied fears and hopes about social change around the turn of the twenty-first century. By reading across genres, he challenges us to rethink our assumptions about the future."-- Carl Abbott , author of Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West, Will Katerberg boldly ventures across the divides among history, literature, and political theory to explore ways in which the American West has embodied fears and hopes about social change around the turn of the twenty-first century. By reading across genres, he challenges us to rethink our assumptions about the future.-- Carl Abbott , author of Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West, "Will Katerberg boldly ventures across the divides among history, literature, and political theory to explore ways in which the American West has embodied fears and hopes about social change around the turn of the twenty-first century. By reading across genres, he challenges us to rethink our assumptions about the future."- Carl Abbott , author of Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West, A beautifully crafted exploration of the Western myth, a true twenty-first-century companion to such seminal works as Richard Slotkins Gunfighter Nation and Henry Nash Smiths Virgin Land.Pacific Historical Review, A beautifully crafted exploration of the Western myth, a true twenty-first-century companion to such seminal works as Richard Slotkin's Gunfighter Nation and Henry Nash Smiths Virgin Land.-- Pacific Historical Review, "A beautifully crafted exploration of the Western myth, a true twenty-first-century companion to such seminal works as Richard Slotkin's Gunfighter Nation and Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land."-- Pacific Historical Review, Will Katerberg boldly ventures across the divides among history, literature, and political theory to explore ways in which the American West has embodied fears and hopes about social change around the turn of the twenty-first century. By reading across genres, he challenges us to rethink our assumptions about the future.Carl Abbott , author of Frontiers Past and Future: Science Fiction and the American West
Dewey Decimal
810.9/35878
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: New World or Old? 2. Beginnings and Endings 3. The End of History 4. Return to Nature 5. Legacies of Hope 6. Returning to Eden 7. Tradition, History, and Place in Utopia 8. Transcendent Horizons and the Redemption of Time 9. Cyborg Frontiers and Manifest Destiny 10. Conclusion: Stories That Save Notes Index
Synopsis
What is the future of the American West? Is it fated to shine with the benign promise of Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia ? Or will it instead dissolve into postapocalyptic dust, as in Walter Miller's classic novel A Canticle for Leibowitz , or devolve into relentlessly dark and rain-soaked urban landscapes, as in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner ? William Katerberg takes a new look at works of utopian, dystopian, and apocalyptic science fiction to show how narratives of the past and future powerfully shape our understanding of the present-day West. Combining intellectual history, literary analysis, and political philosophy, his study boldly encourages readers to reframe their understanding of both popular Western culture and American political culture. The frontier has long fostered America's persistent desire to leave the past behind and begin anew-a desire that has nurtured the utopian dreams of westerners from Progressives to Earth First!ers. Katerberg revisits the frontier mythos (and iconic figures like Buffalo Bill Cody and Frederick Jackson Turner) and explores the West of future-oriented novels and films, in which the frontier is long past and American society is aging. He suggests powerful new ways to think critically and hopefully about American history--and about politics and civic life in the present. Ranging widely over science fiction subgenres--from alternative futures to cyberpunk--Katerberg takes us on a tour of utopias of all stripes, whether exclusivist, reactionary, or progressive. Here are Douglas Coupland's postindustrial West, Callenbach's eco-utopian Pacific Northwest, and Kim Stanley Robinson's critical utopian view of Orange County. He considers how Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead ties revitalized Native American traditions to their hopes for the future, and he uses such stories of race wars as The Turner Diaries to compare reactionary visions to progressive utopianism. By looking at how American frontier mythology plays out in the imagined West of the future, Katerberg offers a new approach to understanding the region's popular culture. Through this artful juxtaposition of history and projected futures, he reminds us that what's to come is not yet determined--and that, even for a nation desperate to leave the past behind, history holds ideas that can light the way to a brighter society., Juxtaposes the mythic history of the West's frontier past with dystopian and utopian narratives set in the present and futuristic West, turning ideas of American national identity upside down, and showing how these narratives powerfully shape our understanding of present-day circumstances., What is the future of the American West? Is it fated to shine with the benign promise of Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia ? Or will it instead dissolve into postapocalyptic dust, as in Walter Miller's classic novel A Canticle for Leibowitz , or devolve into relentlessly dark and rain-soaked urban landscapes, as in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner ? William Katerberg takes a new look at works of utopian, dystopian, and apocalyptic science fiction to show how narratives of the past and future powerfully shape our understanding of the present-day West. Combining intellectual history, literary analysis, and political philosophy, his study boldly encourages readers to reframe their understanding of both popular Western culture and American political culture. The frontier has long fostered America's persistent desire to leave the past behind and begin anew-a desire that has nurtured the utopian dreams of westerners from Progressives to Earth First ers. Katerberg revisits the frontier mythos (and iconic figures like Buffalo Bill Cody and Frederick Jackson Turner) and explores the West of future-oriented novels and films, in which the frontier is long past and American society is aging. He suggests powerful new ways to think critically and hopefully about American history--and about politics and civic life in the present. Ranging widely over science fiction subgenres--from alternative futures to cyberpunk--Katerberg takes us on a tour of utopias of all stripes, whether exclusivist, reactionary, or progressive. Here are Douglas Coupland's postindustrial West, Callenbach's eco-utopian Pacific Northwest, and Kim Stanley Robinson's critical utopian view of Orange County. He considers how Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead ties revitalized Native American traditions to their hopes for the future, and he uses such stories of race wars as The Turner Diaries to compare reactionary visions to progressive utopianism. By looking at how American frontier mythology plays out in the imagined West of the future, Katerberg offers a new approach to understanding the region's popular culture. Through this artful juxtaposition of history and projected futures, he reminds us that what's to come is not yet determined--and that, even for a nation desperate to leave the past behind, history holds ideas that can light the way to a brighter society.
LC Classification Number
PS374.F73K38 2008
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