Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope. Yet scholars and students alike face a problem. Where does one begin to explore global SF in the absence of an established canon? Lingua Cosmica opens the door to some of the creators in the vanguard of international science fiction. Eleven experts offer innovative English-language scholarship on figures ranging from Cuban pioneer Daina Chaviano to Nigerian filmmaker Olatunde Osunsanmi to the Hugo Award-winning Chinese writer Liu Cixin. These essays invite readers to ponder the themes, formal elements, and unique cultural characteristics within the works of these irreplaceable-if too-little-known-artists. Dale Knickerbocker includes fantasists and genre-benders pushing SF along new evolutionary paths even as they draw on the traditions of their own literary cultures. Includes essays on Daina Chaviano (Cuba), Jacek Dukaj (Poland), Jean-Claude Dunyac (France), Andreas Eschbach (Germany), Angelica Gorodischer (Argentina), Sakyo Komatsu (Japan), Liu Cixin (China), Laurent McAllister (Yves Meynard and Jean-Louis Trudel, Francophone Canada), Olatunde Osunsanmi (Nigeria), Johanna Sinisalo (Finland), and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Russia). Contributors: Alexis Brooks de Vita, Pawel Frelik, Yvonne Howell, Yolanda Molina-Gavilan, Vibeke Rutzou Petersen, Amy J. Ransom, Hanna-Riikka Roine, Hanna Samola, Mingwei Song, Tatsumi Takayuki, Juan Carlos Toledano Redondo, and Natacha Vas-Deyres.
Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope. Yet scholars and students alike face a problem. Where does one begin to explore global SF in the absence of an established canon? Lingua Cosmica opens the door to some of the creators in the vanguard of international science fiction. Eleven experts offer innovative English-language scholarship on figures ranging from Cuban pioneer Daina Chaviano to Nigerian filmmaker Olatunde Osunsanmi to the Hugo Award-winning Chinese writer Liu Cixin. These essays invite readers to ponder the themes, formal elements, and unique cultural characteristics within the works of these irreplaceable-if too-little-known-artists. Dale Knickerbocker includes fantasists and genre-benders pushing SF along new evolutionary paths even as they draw on the traditions of their own literary cultures. Includes essays on Daina Chaviano (Cuba), Jacek Dukaj (Poland), Jean-Claude Dunyac (France), Andreas Eschbach (Germany), Angelica Gorodischer (Argentina), Sakyo Komatsu (Japan), Liu Cixin (China), Laurent McAllister (Yves Meynard and Jean-Louis Trudel, Francophone Canada), Olatunde Osunsanmi (Nigeria), Johanna Sinisalo (Finland), and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Russia). Contributors: Alexis Brooks de Vita, Pawel Frelik, Yvonne Howell, Yolanda Molina-Gavilan, Vibeke Rutzou Petersen, Amy J. Ransom, Hanna-Riikka Roine, Hanna Samola, Mingwei Song, Tatsumi Takayuki, Juan Carlos Toledano Redondo, and Natacha Vas-Deyres.
Dale Knickerbocker is Distinguished Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University. He is the author of Juan José Millás: The Obsessive-Compulsive Aesthetic.
"Comprising contributions by recognized critics, Lingua Cosmica is
an excellent addition to the current scholarship on
non-Anglo-American sf." --Science Fiction Studies
"Highly recommended." --Choice
"Knickerbocker has done a service with this collection of essays
not only to fans of science fiction eager to explore new frontiers,
but perhaps more importantly to academic at large, which
historically has been reluctant to embrace speculative fiction as a
serious subject of scholarly study." --Studies in 20th & 21st
Century Literature
"Lingua Cosmica represents an important step forward for the study
of international science fiction . . . because of its indisputable
success at its major goal of better familiarizing an
English-speaking audience with these authors and filmmakers."
--Fafnir - Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Research
"Lingua Cosmica is a vital and much-needed resource for people
interested in world sf and what is or is not in English." --SFRA
Review
"Lingua Cosmica introduces Anglo scholars to a rich tradition of
science fiction around the world. An exciting new perspective on a
genre we thought we knew, Knickerbocker’s volume sets a new
research agenda for global sf studies."--Sherryl Vint, coeditor of
The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction
"If you’re looking for excellent scholarship on 'global' science
fiction, Lingua Cosmica should be your top choice. Its offers very
perceptive essays on a broad variety of non-Anglo-American sf
authors and cineastes written by some of the most respected experts
in the field."--Arthur B. Evans, editor of Vintage Visions: Essays
on Early Science Fiction
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