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BL
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992240
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b746610
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| Title & Author
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To seek out new worlds : : science fiction and world politics /\ edited by Jutta Weldes.
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1st Palgrave Macmillan ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2003.
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230 pages ;; 22 cm
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031229557X
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: 1403960585
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: 9780312295578
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: 9781403960580
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Popular culture, science fiction, and world politics : exploring intertextual relations / Jutta Weldes -- "To know him was to love him. Not to know him was to love him from afar: : diplomacy in Star Trek / Iver B. Newmann -- Bumpy space : imperialism and resistance in Star Trek : The Next Generation / Naeem Inayatullah -- Aliens, alien nations, and alienation in American political economy and popular culture / Ronnie D. Lipschutz -- Demon diasporas : confronting the other and the other-worldly in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel / Patricia Molloy -- Forbidden places, tempting spaces, and the politics of desire : on Stalker and beyond / Aida A. Hozic -- Representation is futile? : American anti-collectivism and the Borg / Patrick Thaddeus Jackson and Daniel H. Nexon -- The problem of the "world and beyond" : encountering "the other" in scinece fiction / Geoffrey Whitehall -- Feminist futures : science fiction, utopia, and the art of possibilities in world politics / Neta C. Crawford.
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| Abstract
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Through detailed analyses of such texts as 'Blade Runner', 'Stalker', 'Star Trek', and 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', the chapters in this volume examine the complex and sometimes contradictory relations between world politics, both as discipline and as practice, and discourses of science fiction.
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Science fiction-- History and criticism.
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Science fiction-- Political aspects.
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17.90 literature in relation with other areas of science and culture.
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Politik
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Science fiction-- History and criticism.
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Science fiction-- Political aspects.
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Science fiction-- Political aspects.
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Science fiction.
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Science-Fiction
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Internationale politiek.
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Science fiction.
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Englisch.
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| Dewey Classification
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809.3/8762
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| LC Classification
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PN3433.6.T6 2003
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17.86bcl
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17.86.bcl
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| Added Entry
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Weldes, Jutta.
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