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- Title: China Mieville and Mark Bould, Eds. "Symposium: Marxism and Fantasy." Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory.
- Author : Utopian Studies
- Release Date : January 22, 2003
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 196 KB
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10.4 (2002): 39-316. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. Single issue $17.50. THE BRITISH JOURNAL Historical Materialism "sees its primary goal as the 'revitalisation and extension' of the theoretical scope of classical Marxism ..." As part of that project, two of the editors--Mark Bould and the British SF/fantasy writer China Mieville (author of the award winning novel Perdido Street Station [2000])--have put together a symposium on "Marxism and Fantasy." The Symposium is an important reopening of the question of fantasy's dishonored status. In so doing, they challenge Darko Suvin's influential dismissal of fantasy as mystification when juxtaposed to the "cognitive estrangement" of science fiction. Reversing Suvin's priorities, Mieville argues that instead, "sf must be considered a subset of a broader fantastic mode" (43).