Lothian, Alexis,

Old futures : speculative fiction and queer possibility / Alexis Lothian. - New York : New York University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). - Postmillennial pop NYU scholarship online .

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographies and index.

'Old Futures' traverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital media. Centering works by women, queers, and people of colour that are marginalized within most accounts of the genre, the text offers a new perspective on speculative fiction studies while reframing established theories of queer temporality by arguing that futures imagined in the past offer new ways to queer the present.



9781479854585


Speculative fiction--History and criticism.
Future, The, in literature.
Gender identity in literature.


Electronic Books.

PN3448 / .O434 2019