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Imagining Alternative Worlds - Christoffer Kølvraa, Bernhard Forchtner

Imagining Alternative Worlds

Far-Right Fiction and the Power of Cultural Imaginaries
Buch | Hardcover
200 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-25472-2 (ISBN)
CHF 235,65 inkl. MwSt
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Imagining Alternative Worlds explores how the far right employs fictionality as a powerful political tool in the 21st century.

It does so by examining the far right’s own cultural production and commentary through a large collection of its novels, novellas, short stories, and film reviews, illustrating how the ‘alternative worlds’ articulated in such cultural products convey its ideology. More specifically, the book identifies and analyses four distinct far-right cultural imaginaries – a ‘primordial’, a ‘nostalgic’, a ‘promethean’, and a ‘nihilist’ one – that each subtly conveys different yet linked ideas about space, time, ‘race’, gender, and heroic identity. By drawing attention to the cultural heterogeneity of the contemporary far right, Imagining Alternative Worlds offers key insights into the dreams, identities, and norms such actors hope will define our future.

The book will be of interest to researchers of the far right, of literary, media and communication studies, and of social and cultural history.

Christoffer Kølvraa is Associate Professor at the School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark. His research focuses on right-wing discourses and voices in Europe and the US, especially their affective performativity through provocation and ‘playfulness’. Bernhard Forchtner is Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Media and Communication, University of Leicester, United Kingdom. His research focuses on European far-right parties and movements, especially their narrative self-construction and their discourses about environmental issues.

1. Introduction: Literature, Movie Reviews, and the Cultural Imaginaries of the Far Right 2. Worlds Apart: Safe Spaces, Non-Places, and Beyond 3. Right on Time: Temporality, History, and Change 4. Skin in the Game: Racism Suffered and Imposed 5. Significant Others: Women, Sex, and Gender 6. Manning Up: Heroic Agency and Political Utopia 7. Concluding Remarks: Cultural Imaginaries and Far-right Subjectivities Appendix 1: Far-Right Fiction Appendix 2: Far-Right Movie Reviews

Erscheint lt. Verlag 11.11.2024
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
Zusatzinfo 2 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 1-032-25472-6 / 1032254726
ISBN-13 978-1-032-25472-2 / 9781032254722
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