Reveals the alt-right's project to claim science fiction and
by extension
the future.
Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films and literature as saying only white men have the imagination required to invent a high-tech future. Other white nationalists envision racist utopias filled with Aryan supermen and all-white space colonies. Speculative Whiteness traces these ideas through the entangled histories of science fiction culture and white supremacist politics, showing that debates about representation in science fiction films and literature are struggles over who has the right to imagine and inhabit the future. Although fascists insist that tomorrow belongs to them, they have always been and will continue to be contested by antifascist fans willing to fight for the future.
By:
Jordan S. Carroll Imprint: Minnesota Humanities Comm Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 178mm,
Width: 127mm,
Spine: 5mm
Weight: 113g ISBN:9781517917081 ISBN 10: 1517917085 Series:Forerunners: Ideas First Pages: 120 Publication Date:01 December 2024 Audience:
College/higher education
,
Further / Higher Education
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Jordan S. Carroll is author of Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of US Literature, which won the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars.