Culture's Futures: Science Fiction, Form and the Problem of Culture

by Eric Aronoff

This book argues that science fiction has been a key participant, along with anthropology and literary theory, in the interdisciplinary debates over "culture" and narrative form from the modernist period to the present. Both science fiction and the anthropological ethnography, in their modernist forms and post-modern/postcolonial reinventions, are intertwined technologies for constructing "culture" and difference through narrative worldbuilding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031804295
• ISBN13: 9783031804298
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan