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ISBN 10: 3031422341

ISBN 13: 9783031422348

Author: John L. Hennessey

This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction perform similar work in “making the strange familiar” and “making the familiar strange” by taking their readers on journeys through space and time. Excellent history, like excellent speculative fiction, should cause readers to reconsider crucial aspects of their society that they normally overlook or lead them to reflect on radically different forms of social organization. Drawing on Gunlög Fur’s postcolonial concept of concurrences, and with contributions that explore diverse examples of speculative fiction and historical encounters using a variety of disciplinary approaches, this volume provides new perspectives on colonialism, ecological destruction, the nature of humanity, and how to envision a better future.

History and Speculative Fiction 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction to History and Speculative Fiction: Essays Honoring Gunlög Fur

Chapter 2: Concurrences and the Planetary Emergency: Ursula K. Le Guin in the Capitalocene

Chapter 3: Concurrent Whiteness: Science Fiction Film’s Close Encounters in Apartheid South Africa

Chapter 4: Settler Colonial Solutions to Colonial Problems: Cinemas and the Colonization of Outer Space

Chapter 5: The Weirdness of White Strangers: Westerners in Southeast Asian Lore and Tradition

Chapter 6: How [Not] to Run a Colony in the Distant Past and Future

Chapter 7: “I Get to Exist as a Black Person in the World”: Bridgerton as Speculative Romance and Alternate History

Chapter 8: Ted Chiang’s Counterphysical Stories and Science History Pedagogy

Chapter 9: The Dark Past of Our Bright Future: Histories of Star Trek: Voyager

Chapter 10: The Wild Boar Never Strikes Without Cause: Monstrous Hybrids, National Identity, and Gender in Chawu*

Chapter 11: Heritaging History in Margit Sandemo’s The Legend of the Ice People*

Chapter 12: Shadowing Nature’s Brutality: History and Human Nature in Princess Mononoke*

Chapter 13: Intervening in the Present Through Future Fictions

Chapter 14: Building a Kinship Society (short story).

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