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European Journal of American Culture 41.3 is out now! Special Issue
Tuesday, November 01, 2022

European Journal of American Culture 41.3 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that European Journal of American Culture 41.3 is out now!

 

Special Issue: ‘North American Speculative Fiction and the Political’

 

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/european-journal-of-american-culture

 

Aims & Scope

 

The European Journal of American Culture (EJAC) is an academic, refereed journal for scholars, academics and students from many disciplines with a common involvement in the interdisciplinary study of America and American culture, drawing on a variety of approaches and encompassing the whole evolution of America. EJAC is particularly interested in articles considering the ways in which politics, history, literature, the visual arts and other areas of the humanities have increasingly engaged with cultural issues.

 

Issue 41.3

 

Editorial

 

Special Issue: ‘North American Speculative Fiction and the Political’

INA BATZKE AND SABRINA MITTERMEIER

 

Articles

 

Living a postmodern purgatory: Death anxiety in Russian Doll

CORVIN BITTNER

 

Turning the political into ideology: The exorcizing of a metaphor in James Blish’s short story adaptation of a cold war Star Trek narrative

AGNIESZKA URBAŃCZYK

 

Exploring racialization as technology for oppression in Stephanie Saulter’s Gemsigns (2013)

ALENA CICHOLEWSKI

 

Speculations, fabulations, incantations: Science fiction, contemporary futurology and how to change the world

JULIA GRILLMAYR

 

On the politics of speculative fiction: A conversation with Drew Hayden Taylor

SARAH CULLINGHAM

 

Book Reviews

 

Gender in Post-9/11 American Apocalyptic TV: Representations of Masculinity and Femininity at the End of the World, Eve Bennett (2019)

BEN DEVRIES

 

Black Trans Feminism, Marquis Bey (2021)

MARIETTA KOSMA

 

Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State, Moon-Ho Jung (2022)

SALONI SRIVASTAVA