Product Details:
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-10: 0230321445
ISBN-13: 9780230321441
Sku: 223792274
Publish Date: 1/17/2012
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 9H x 6L x 0.75T
Pages:
188
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From the Publisher:
Using close readings and thematic studies of contemporary science fiction and postcolonial theory, ranging from discussions of Japanese and Canadian science fiction to a deconstruction of race and (post)colonialism in World of Warcraft, This book is the first comprehensive study of the complex and developing relationship between the two areas. |
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