{"title":"The Translocated Body","authors":"Atanu Bhattacharya, Preet Hiradhar","doi":"10.3828/extr.2022.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2022.10","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Young Adult Science Fiction (YASF) assumes added significance in nineteenth-century Bengal, being located within a network of contesting discourses. During its long history, Bangla YASF negotiated a complex set of knowledge systems that frequently focused on the body of the youth. We attempt to understand this discursive space with the help of three paradigms—“technological wonder,” “pedagogic systems,” and “the medicalized body.” We contend that these paradigms were instrumental in voicing subaltern concerns against the regime of British dominance. We examine Jagadananda Roy’s Travel to Venus (1895), one of the earliest works of YASF written during the period, in the context of these paradigms.","PeriodicalId":249855,"journal":{"name":"Extrapolation: Volume 63, Issue 2","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130660892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dreams and Dust","authors":"Joseph Rex Young","doi":"10.3828/extr.2022.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2022.14","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000An emerging body of opinion cites the Daenerys subplot in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire (1996-) as a white savior narrative. This article argues against this. Martin presents his emblematic medievalist Occident as equally barbaric as his Orient, disabling the Manichean colonialist allegory some scholars perceive in his work. Although Daenerys certainly thinks like a colonialist savior, such discourse makes most sense as Bakhtinian image of a language, exhibited by Martin in concert with depictions of the intractable problems her actions cause, to mount a polemic authorial critique of colonialist literature. Support for this reading can be found elsewhere in Martin’s work, in which he frequently critiques uncritical espousals of literary tropes, and in his careful moral variegation of the peoples Daenerys conquers.","PeriodicalId":249855,"journal":{"name":"Extrapolation: Volume 63, Issue 2","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134524491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The Wings of the Redwing Hawk”","authors":"D. Byrne","doi":"10.3828/extr.2022.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2022.12","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Ursula K. Le Guin is well known and widely studied for her outstanding career as an author of speculative fiction. There is much less scholarly criticism of her poetry, which constitutes eleven volumes (Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust) and deserves sustained attention. This article explores one section of her poetry—the poems published in Always Coming Home (1986, hereafter ACH)—as a response to the environmental degradation that has been the hallmark of the past two centuries. I explore Le Guin’s creative practices within the framework of her insistence on a flattened ontology where humans and nonhuman living beings enjoy equal status and humans’ dependency on nonhuman nature is acknowledged. The article probes the status of the poems in an exceptionally innovative text, namely the imagined history of a people who “might be going to have lived a very long time from now in Northern California” (ACH n.p.). In exploring Le Guin’s view of human inter- and intra-actions with nonhuman animals, I also take note of the formal features of the poems which are intertwined with their semantic aspects.","PeriodicalId":249855,"journal":{"name":"Extrapolation: Volume 63, Issue 2","volume":"216 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115511756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cat and Housefly","authors":"Timothy S. Murphy","doi":"10.3828/extr.2022.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2022.13","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000M. John Harrison’s major fictional sequences Viriconium (1971-1985) and the Empty Space trilogy (2002-2012) refuse the quasi-theological world-building ambitions of conventional fantasy and sf, offering instead the paradoxical pleasures of imaginary worlds that fail to cohere and narrative mysteries that avoid resolution or closure. Harrison uses the biophilosophical concept of Umwelt, referring to a world of perception and action specific to a particular lifeform and inaccessible to other forms, as a conceptual alternative to the monolithic, reductive, and escapist logic shared by cult-fictions like The Lord of the Rings and fantastic crank-cults such as Scientology.","PeriodicalId":249855,"journal":{"name":"Extrapolation: Volume 63, Issue 2","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123341082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Vitro Meat and Science Fiction","authors":"N. Castle","doi":"10.3828/extr.2022.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2022.11","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article argues that the in vitro (i.e., lab-grown) meat boom can be better understood by framing it within sf studies, both historically and especially through to the contemporary moment. Not only does in vitro meat (IVM) have a long history of representation in sf, it is also framed in the public and corporate spheres through the use of sf tropes. The article offers close readings of IVM in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003), Elizabeth Dougherty’s The Blind Pig (2010), and director Brandon Cronenberg’s Antiviral (2012), arguing that reading IVM in contemporary sf is a particularly effective method of thinking through its material effects.","PeriodicalId":249855,"journal":{"name":"Extrapolation: Volume 63, Issue 2","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127698995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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