Titlebook: Alterity and Capitalism in Speculative Fiction; Estranging Contempor Tomás Vergara Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s

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Elizabeth H. Aylward,Frank R. Brown IIItive technique traditionally associated with a rigorous scientific-based approach to world-building in speculative fiction. This technique maintains an aporetic structure that complicates the instrumental view of scientific rationality promoted in some sectors of SF literary criticism. In the case o

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Tomás VergaraExplores the political potential shared by all speculative fiction.Draws on an alternative genealogy of Marxist criticism.Posits that speculative fiction performs an estrangement effect on historical

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978-3-031-39926-8The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl

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ative fiction performs an estrangement effect on historical Speculative fiction has been traditionally studied in Marxist literary criticism, following Darko Suvin’s paradigmatic model of science fiction, according to a hierarchical division of its multiple subgenres in terms of their assumed inhere

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Book 2023torical reality that can potentially render visible the role of fantasies in the organisation of capitalist social practice. This narrative effect enables an estranged perspective by which the novel interprets and conceptualises historical reality ina totalising manner..

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Introduction: Anamorphic Estrangement,e traditional models of SF. It is precisely due to its alterity function—in all its subgeneric variants—that speculative fiction can provide a great model to think and render tangible the role of fantasies in the organization of capitalist social practice.