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Building Bridges between Cultures in Ian McDonald's Science Fiction

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Building Bridges between Cultures in Ian McDonald's Science Fiction

Contributors:

By (Author) Jerome Winter

ISBN:

9781666956801

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Publication Date:

4th September 2025

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Literary studies: postcolonial literature

Dewey:

823.914

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

240

Dimensions:

Width 152mm, Height 229mm

Description

This book is a career-long retrospective of the Irish writer Ian McDonald and his complex, compelling representation of our contemporary global condition.

Ian McDonald is a celebrated writer within the science-fiction community whose rich and urgent body of works, span over a quarter of a century. The author claims McDonalds work functions as vital, troubling allegories, which both refuse the Orientalist euphemizing of colonial atrocities, while still at the same time envisioning a transformative global alterity, seeking an ethical and political embrace of systematically silenced subaltern voices in the neoliberal world-system. The book follows McDonald as the globe-trotting writer travels from Ireland to Kenya, to India, to Brazil, to Turkey, to a proliferating multiverse and beyond. Along the way, the author analyzes McDonalds science fiction as a salient contribution to the flourishing cosmopolitan literature of postcolonial developing nations at the crossroads of the global imaginary.

Author Bio

Jerome Winter is Full-Time Lecturer at the University of California, Riverside.

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