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Tran, Julie Ha.

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Alien Cities: Anxieties about Race, Space, and the Body Politic in the Science Fiction City.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Alien Cities: Anxieties about Race, Space, and the Body Politic in the Science Fiction City./
Author:	Tran, Julie Ha.
Description:	143 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-10A(E).
Subject:	Literature, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3565566
ISBN:	9781303154904

Alien Cities: Anxieties about Race, Space, and the Body Politic in the Science Fiction City.
Tran, Julie Ha.

Alien Cities: Anxieties about Race, Space, and the Body Politic in the Science Fiction City. - 143 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2013.

In this project, I will explore the trope of city as body---the body politic---in a diverse array of seminal texts in science fiction literature, films, and critical essays. I choose science fiction (SF) because it provides the kinds of imagery and topos unique to the genre that allow us to examine the kinds of attitudes and assumptions that undergird the metaphor of the city as body and allow it to circulate and function as a social discourse. For instance, a present-day metropolis with components that are completely intertwined with digital technologies like satellites, cell phone towers, and video surveillance systems doesn't necessarily resemble the idealized "master body" of antiquity. What this city does resemble, however, is the figure of the science fiction cyborg, a hybrid body of human and machine. In fact, today's cities look less and less like the traditional idealized human body: the sense of estrangement and vertigo that comes with our digital and globalized age is described better by the alien cities of SF and the alien bodies that occupy these urban spaces. SF cities offer us new models of the body politic that we can recognize in our daily lives, not in spite of their strangeness but because of it---tropes that we cannot find in texts of straightforward narrative realism.

ISBN: 9781303154904Subjects--Topical Terms:

624011
Literature, Modern.

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