Science Fiction, New Space Opera, and Neoliberal Globalism

Nostalgia for Infinity

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Science Fiction, Theory
Cover of the book Science Fiction, New Space Opera, and Neoliberal Globalism by Jerome Winter, University of Wales Press
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Author: Jerome Winter ISBN: 9781783169467
Publisher: University of Wales Press Publication: November 15, 2016
Imprint: University of Wales Press Language: English
Author: Jerome Winter
ISBN: 9781783169467
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Publication: November 15, 2016
Imprint: University of Wales Press
Language: English

One of the few points critics and readers can agree upon when discussing the fiction popularly known as New Space Opera – a recent subgenre movement of science fiction – is its canny engagement with contemporary cultural politics in the age of globalisation. This book avers that the complex political allegories of New Space Opera respond to the recent cultural phenomenon known as neoliberalism, which entails the championing of the deregulation and privatisation of social services and programmes in the service of global free-market expansion. Providing close readings of the evolving New Space Opera canon and cultural histories and theoretical contexts of neoliberalism as a regnant ideology of our times, this book conceptualises a means to appreciate this thriving movement of popular literature.

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One of the few points critics and readers can agree upon when discussing the fiction popularly known as New Space Opera – a recent subgenre movement of science fiction – is its canny engagement with contemporary cultural politics in the age of globalisation. This book avers that the complex political allegories of New Space Opera respond to the recent cultural phenomenon known as neoliberalism, which entails the championing of the deregulation and privatisation of social services and programmes in the service of global free-market expansion. Providing close readings of the evolving New Space Opera canon and cultural histories and theoretical contexts of neoliberalism as a regnant ideology of our times, this book conceptualises a means to appreciate this thriving movement of popular literature.

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