A paraître le 15 octobre, un essai sur la science-fiction gothic. 

This timely book explores what might be termed "Gothic" science fiction of the last three decades, 1980-2010. Identifying texts by this category may at first appear contradictory, as the Gothic's connotations of the irrational and supernatural seems to conflict with science fiction's rational foundations. However, this collection demonstrates that the two categories have rich intersections. Applying such a category to texts of this period permits fresh examination of their engagement with the dramatic socio-economic changes accompanying these years: changes in communication technology, medical science, globalization, and global politics have transformed the way we live, and Gothic science fiction identifies narrative modes appropriate to this modern world. The Gothic mode images readily in science fiction that explores power, anxiety, resistance and capital. 
The essays in this collection reflect the current willingness among researchers to explore interpretations across genre, form, and discipline, as well as revealing a buoyant field of research in contemporary Gothic and science fiction studies. The collection ranges across narrative media - in the form of literature, film, graphic novels, trading card games - and across genre - in the form of horror, science fiction, Gothic, New Weird and more. The essays explore questions of genre, medical science, gender, biopower, capitalism, with Gothic science fiction texts understood as uniquely inflected for their time and place. 

Et le sommaire : 
Part I: Redefining Genres 
Chapter 1. "In the Zone: Topologies of Genre Weirdness" by Roger Luckhurst 
Chapter 2: "Zombie Death Drive: Between Gothic and Science Fiction" by Fred Botting 

Part II: Biopower & Capital 
Chapter 3: "'Death is Irrelevant': Gothic Science Fiction and the Biopolitics of Empire" by Aris Mousoutzanis 
Chapter 4: "'A Butcher's Shop where the Meat Still Moved': Gothic Doubles, Organ Harvesting and Human Cloning" by Sara Wasson 
Chapter 5: "Guillermo del Toro's Cronos, or the Pleasures of Impurity" by Laurence Davies 
Chapter 6: "Infected with Life: Neo-Supernaturalism and the Gothic Zombie" by Gwyneth Peaty 
Chapter 7: "Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson's Gap Cycle" by Emily Alder 

Part III: Gender and Genre 
Chapter 8: "The Superheated, Superdense Prose of David Conway: Gender and Subjectivity Beyond The Starry Wisdom" by Mark P. Williams 
Chapter 9: "Spatialized Ontologies: Toni Morrison's Science Fiction Traces in Gothic Spaces" by Jerrilyn McGregory 

Part IV: Strange Cities, Strange Temporalities 
Chapter 10: "The Gothic Punk Milieu in Popular Narrative Fictions" by Nickianne Moody 
Chapter 11: "Gothic Science Fiction in the Steampunk Graphic Novel: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" by Laura Hilton 

 

(Source : SF Signal)