Imagining Alternative Worlds

Imagining Alternative Worlds
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 214
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ISBN-10 : 9781040222799
ISBN-13 : 104022279X
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Book Synopsis Imagining Alternative Worlds by : Christoffer Kølvraa

Download or read book Imagining Alternative Worlds written by Christoffer Kølvraa and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Alternative Worlds explores how the far right employs fictionality as a powerful political tool in the 21st century. It does so by examining the far right’s own cultural production and commentary through a large collection of its novels, novellas, short stories, and film reviews, illustrating how the ‘alternative worlds’ articulated in such cultural products convey its ideology. More specifically, the book identifies and analyses four distinct far-right cultural imaginaries – a ‘primordial’, a ‘nostalgic’, a ‘promethean’, and a ‘nihilist’ one – that each subtly conveys different yet linked ideas about space, time, ‘race’, gender, and heroic identity. By drawing attention to the cultural heterogeneity of the contemporary far right, Imagining Alternative Worlds offers key insights into the dreams, identities, and norms such actors hope will define our future. The book will be of interest to researchers of the far right, of literary, media and communication studies, and of social and cultural history.


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