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creators_name: Kneale, James
title: Outer Space
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C03
divisions: F26
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
abstract: This chapter explores literary geographies of outer space in Anglophone science fiction (sf). It draws on two key ideas: Fredric Jameson’s argument that sf is a ‘spatial genre,’ characterised by a ‘dialectic of inside and outside,’ and Mikhail Bakhtin’s chronotopes (time-space representational conventions). Reading these ideas together, the chapter explores two common representations of outer space. The first focuses on the emptiness of space, which can be estranging, lethal, sublime, or transformative, but which can also be thought of as examples of Bakhtin’s chronotope of ‘adventure time.’ The second follows recent human geographical work that sees space as topological, emphasising ‘gates,’ ‘wormholes,’ and other points of connection in empty space, which can be read as spatialised ‘points of crisis’ with potentially transformative consequences. The chapter discusses a number of examples drawn from the fictions of E.E. Smith, Ann Leckie, Iain M. Banks, and Frederik Pohl, amongst others.
date: 2024
date_type: published
publisher: Routledge
official_url: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003097761
full_text_type: other
language: eng
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2307830
doi: 10.4324/9781003097761
isbn_13: 9780367564339
lyricists_name: Kneale, James
lyricists_id: JRKNE78
actors_name: Kneale, James
actors_id: JRKNE78
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: restricted
place_of_pub: Abingdon, UK
pagerange: 303-312
isbn: 0367564335
book_title: The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies
citation:        Kneale, James;      (2024)    Outer Space.                    In:  The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies. (pp. 303-312).   Routledge: Abingdon, UK.      
 
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