at Google ScholarTitle data
Hannah, Matthew G. ; Mayer, Sylvia:
Scale and Speculative Futures in Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker and Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312.
In: Cortiel, Jeanne ; Hanke, Christine ; Hutta, Jan Simon ; Milburn, Colin
(ed.):
Practices of Speculation : Modeling, Embodiment, Figuration. -
Bielefeld
: transcript
,
2020
. - pp. 191-208
. - (Culture & Theory
; 202
)
ISBN 978-3-8394-4751-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839447512-009
Abstract in another language
The essay discusses two science fiction novels that engage with contemporary key technologies: Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker (1980), which speculates about possible effects of nuclear technology, and Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312 (2012), which speculates about possible consequences of computational, biomedical, and geoengineering technologies. It focuses on the spatiality of the future worlds presented by these novels and demonstrate how “scale” as a narrative strategy draws attention to the relevance of spatial and scalar structuring in fictional future worlds—and, by implication, in nonfictional worlds, as well. The re-scaled future worlds of Riddley Walker and 2312 shed light on the dynamics of the social constitution of both space and time and on the potential hazards of technological modernization.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a book |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Chair American Studies/ Anglophone Literatures and Cultures > Chair American Studies/ Anglophone Literatures and Cultures - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sylvia Mayer Profile Fields > Emerging Fields > Cultural Encounters and Transcultural Processes Research Institutions > Research Centres > Bayreuth Institute for American Studies - BIFAS Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature Faculties > Faculty of Languages and Literature > Chair American Studies/ Anglophone Literatures and Cultures Profile Fields Profile Fields > Emerging Fields Research Institutions Research Institutions > Research Centres |
| Result of work at the UBT: | Yes |
| DDC Subjects: | 800 Literature > 810 American literature in English 800 Literature > 820 English and Old English literatures |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2021 13:40 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Jan 2021 13:40 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/61463 |