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The Sublime Simulacrum
Vancouver in Douglas Coupland’s Geography of Apocalypse
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Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Introduction 1
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Altered States
- The Man in the Klein Blue Suit 29
- The Cultural Logic of Post-Capitalism 45
- Logical Gaps and Capitalism’s Seduction in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl 61
- “The Dystopia of the Obsolete” 73
- Post-Frontier and Re-Definition of Space in Tropic of Orange 93
- Our Posthuman Adolescence 111
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Plastic Subjectivities
- Woman Gave Names to All the Animals 131
- The End of Life as We Knew It 149
- “The Treatment for Stirrings” 165
- Imagining Black Bodies in the Future 181
- Brown Girl in the Ring as Urban Policy 193
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Spectral Histories
- Archive Failure? Cielos de la tierra’s Historical Dystopia 219
- Love, War, and Mal de Amores 239
- Culture of Control/Control of Culture 259
- The Sublime Simulacrum 275
- Neoliberalism and Dystopia in U.S.–Mexico Borderlands Fiction 291
- America and Books Are “Never Going to Die” 311
- In Pursuit of an Outside 327
- Homero Aridjis and Mexico’s Eco-Critical Dystopia 339
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Emancipating Genres
- Lost in Grand Central 357
- Which Way Is Hope? Dystopia into the (Mexican) Borgian Labyrinth 373
- Dystopia Now 393
- The Romance of the Blazing World 409
- “It’s not power, it’s sex” 427
- Another Novel Is Possible 453
- About the Contributors 475
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Altered States
- The Man in the Klein Blue Suit 29
- The Cultural Logic of Post-Capitalism 45
- Logical Gaps and Capitalism’s Seduction in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl 61
- “The Dystopia of the Obsolete” 73
- Post-Frontier and Re-Definition of Space in Tropic of Orange 93
- Our Posthuman Adolescence 111
-
Plastic Subjectivities
- Woman Gave Names to All the Animals 131
- The End of Life as We Knew It 149
- “The Treatment for Stirrings” 165
- Imagining Black Bodies in the Future 181
- Brown Girl in the Ring as Urban Policy 193
-
Spectral Histories
- Archive Failure? Cielos de la tierra’s Historical Dystopia 219
- Love, War, and Mal de Amores 239
- Culture of Control/Control of Culture 259
- The Sublime Simulacrum 275
- Neoliberalism and Dystopia in U.S.–Mexico Borderlands Fiction 291
- America and Books Are “Never Going to Die” 311
- In Pursuit of an Outside 327
- Homero Aridjis and Mexico’s Eco-Critical Dystopia 339
-
Emancipating Genres
- Lost in Grand Central 357
- Which Way Is Hope? Dystopia into the (Mexican) Borgian Labyrinth 373
- Dystopia Now 393
- The Romance of the Blazing World 409
- “It’s not power, it’s sex” 427
- Another Novel Is Possible 453
- About the Contributors 475