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Orbiting Ray Bradbury's Mars: Biographical, Anthropological, Literary, Scientific and Other Perspectives(41 Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy)

Orbiting Ray Bradbury's Mars: Biographical, Anthropological, Literary, Scientific and Other Perspectives(41 Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy)

          
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This essay collection explores the life and work of science fiction doyen Ray Bradbury from a variety of perspectives. Noting the impact of the Southwest on Bradbury, some of the essays analyze Bradbury's southwest metaphors: colonial pollution of a pristine ecology, the impacts of a colonial invasion upon an indigenous population, the meeting of cultures with different values and physical aspects. Other essays view Bradbury via the lens of post-colonialism, drawing parallels between such works as The Martian Chronicles and real-life colonialism and its effects. Another essay views Bradbury sociologically, analyzing border issues in his 1947 New Yorker story "I See You Never," written long before the issue of Mexican deportees appeared on the American literary horizon. From the scientific side, four essays by astronomers document how Bradbury formed the minds of many budding scientists with his vision. On August 22, 2012, the Martian landing site of the Curiosity rover in the Gale Crater was named "Bradbury." This honor shows that Bradbury forms a significant link between the worlds of fiction and planetary science.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword (Peter Smith) Preface (Gloria McMillan) Introduction: Landing on Bradbury’s Western Mars (Gloria McMillan) Part One: Biographical Lens Miracles of Rare Device: Bradbury and the American Southwest (Jonathan R. Eller) The Sorcerer’s Apprentices: How the Lives of Three Regional “Weird Fiction” Writers Became Creatively Entangled (Wolf Forrest) Part Two: Anthropological Lens Prescient Border Crossing: “I See You Never” and the Undocumented Mexicans Americans Prefer Not to See (Marleen S. Barr) Bradbury’s Survivance Stories (Grace L. Dillon) A “Night Meeting” in the Southwest: Hospitality in Martian Chronicles (Adam Lawrence) Illustrating Otherness: Crossing Frontiers in The Illustrated Man (Francisco Laguna-Correa) Part Three: Literary Lens Loss in the Language of Tomorrow: Journeying Through Tucson on the Way to “Usher II” (Aaron Barlow) Bradbury’s Mars: Pathway to Reinvention and Redemption (Kimberly Fain) The Desert Is Earth and Mars: An Ecocritical, Bachelardian Exploration of “And the Moon Be Still as Bright” and It Came from Outer Space (Christopher Cokinos) Part Four: Scientific Lens Why Does Mars Beckon Us? (Espinoza) The Exploration of Mars: An Unintentional Invasion? (David M. Acklam) A Martian Chronicle (Charles L. Dugan, Jr.) The Naming of Names (Christopher P. McKay and Carol Stoker) Part Five: Media Lens De-Alienating the Alien: The Limits of Empathy in NBC’s The Martian Chronicles Miniseries (Paul Cote) The Illustrated Man Illustrates Our Future (Howard Allen) Silver Locusts on the Silver Screen: Bradbury’s Western Mars Confronts 1960s British Art-Cinema (Martin R. Hall) Part Six: Educational Lens Teaching Martians in Tucson (Gloria McMillan) About the Contributors


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  • ISBN-13: 9780786475766
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 358 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0786475765
  • Publisher Date: 11 Oct 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Series Title: 41 Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
  • Sub Title: Biographical, Anthropological, Literary, Scientific and Other Perspectives
  • Width: 152 mm


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