New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction

Lars Schmeink, Ingo Cornils (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

XV, 317 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-95962-3 (ISBN)

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New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction demonstrates the variety and scope of German science fiction (SF) production in literature, television, and cinema. The volume argues that speculative fictions and explorations of the fantastic provide a critical lens for studying the possibilities and limitations of paradigm shifts in society. Lars Schmeink and Ingo Cornils bring together essays that study the renaissance of German SF in the twenty-first century. The volume makes clear that German SF is both global and local-the genre is in balance between internationally dominant forms and adapting them to Germany's reality as it relates to migration, the environment, and human rights. The essays explore a range of media (literature, cinema, television) and relevant political, philosophical, and cultural discourses.

lt;b>Lars Schmeink is a science fiction studies scholar from Hamburg, Germany. He has received a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Leeds (currently on hold due to Corona). He is researcher in the FutureWork research project of the German Ministry of Education at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He is the founder of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung and has served as president of the board from 2010-19. He has published widely on science fiction, the fantastic, and popular culture: The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture (co-editor, 2020); Cyberpunk and Visual Culture (co-editor, 2018); Biopunk Dystopias: Genetic Engineering, Society, and Science Fiction (2016), Collision of Realities (co-editor, 2012); Fremde Welten (co-editor, 2012).

Introduction: Science Fiction in German - An Overview Ingo Cornils / Lars Schmeink (University of Leeds, UK / HafenCity University, Germany).- Going Round in Cycles: Time Travel and Determinism in Dark (2017-) Juliane Blank (University of the Saarland).- White German Agency in Transfer, Die kommenden Tage, Hell Evan Torner (University of Cincinnati, USA).- Popular German Science Fiction Film and European Migration Gabriele Müller (York University, Canada).- Daring Dystopia: Finding the Female Voice in Formal Experiments Klaudia Seibel (University of Giessen, Germany).- 'Last Men' in the Dystopian Novel of Contemporary German Literature Kristina Mateescu (University of Heidelberg, Germany).- Dirk C. Fleck's Maeva Trilogy Peter Seyferth (Independent Scholar, Munich, Germany).- QualityLand: Marc-Uwe Kling's Social Commentary as "Funny Dystopia" Joscha Klüppel (University of Oregon, United States).- Part III: New Criticism - Climate Change and Ecology.- Ecocriticism in Contemporary German SF Laura Zinn (University of Giessen, Germany).- Misogyny and climate change in Karen Duve's Macht.- Clarisa Novello (University of Aberdeen, Scotland).- Apocalyptic Greeneries: Climate, Vegetation and the End of the World in Ransmayr, Kracht and Fritsch Solvejg Nitzke (Technical University of Dresden, Germany).- The Language of Ice in the Anthropocene: The Case of Der Schwarm, Eiszeit In Europa? and Eistau Matteo Gallostampino (University of Bergamo, Italy).- Part IV: New Identities - Gender, Health, Posthumanism.- From Fiction to Society: Gender-Neutral Pronouns in the Near Future Novel Wasteland Askin-Hayat Dogan (Independent Scholar, Berlin, Germany).- The Paradoxes of Illness and Health in Juli Zeh's Corpus Delicti: Ein Prozess Mylene Branco (Université Luxembourg).- Nach der Langeweile. Boredom, Critical Posthumanism and Critique of Culture Hanna Schumacher (University of Edinburg, Scotland).- Transhumanism Revisited: DietmarDath's Abschaffung der Arten Roland Innerhofer (University of Vienna, Austria).

"New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction marks a major shift both in the study and inclusion of what it terms the German 'transcultural fantastic.' ... The present collection contributes to this shift through its preference for a transcultural lens over the binary that expects global science fiction to enact the Other. ... Overall, the authors of New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction pose questions key to the genre's and, indeed, to our planet's future." (Sonja Fritzsche, German Studies Canada, Vol. 59 (2), 2023)

Erscheinungsdatum	25.04.2022
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Global Science Fiction
Zusatzinfo	XV, 317 p. 8 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	565 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Anthropocene • Borders and Migration • Climate Change Fiction • German Science Fiction • literature and the environment • posthumanism • Science Fiction • Utopianism
ISBN-10	3-030-95962-7 / 3030959627
ISBN-13	978-3-030-95962-3 / 9783030959623
Zustand	Neuware