Connie Willis?s Science Fiction
Doomsday Every Day
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 27 May 2024
- ISBN 9781032303840
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages292 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 540 g
- Language English 615
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Short description:
This collection argues that Connie Willis?s oeuvre performs science fiction?s task of cognitive estrangement by highlighting by highlighting our human inability to read the times correctly?and yet also affirming the ethical imperative to attempt to truly observe and record our temporal location
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In spite of Connie Willis?s numerous science fiction awards and her groundbreaking history as a woman in the field, there is a surprising dearth of critical publication surrounding her work. Taking Doomsday Book as its cue, this collection argues that Connie Willis?s most famous novel, along with the rest of her oeuvre, performs science fiction?s task of cognitive estrangement by highlighting our human inability to read the times correctly?and yet also affirming the ethical imperative to attempt to truly observe and record our temporal location. Willis?s fiction emphasizes that doomsdays happen every day, and they risk being forgotten by some, even as their trauma repeats for others. However, disasters also have the potential to upend accepted knowledge and transform the social order for the better, and this collection considers the ways that Willis pairs comic and tragic modes to reflect these uncertainties.
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Introduction
PART I: Contagion
Chapter One: All This Has Happened Before, and All This Will Happen Again: Doomsday Book and Recurring Pandemics
Joelle L. Renstrom
Chapter Two: Flip Passes: Interpreting Agency and Contagion in Bellwether
Jill Marie Treftz
PART II: Individual and Collective Trauma
Chapter Three: Emergency Unpreparedness: Responses to Disaster in Connie Willis?s Passage Matthew Newcomb
Chapter Four: Taking it Personally: Private Engagement with Public Trauma from World War II to J.F.K.
Janet L. Bland
PART III: Incarnation and Embodiment
Chapter Five: "You Were Here All Along": Doomsday Book and the Bodies of Christ
Chad Schrock
Chapter Six: Christmas Every Day: Incarnational Theology in Connie Willis?s "Inn" and "Epiphany"
Erin Newcomb
PART IV: Intertextuality
Chapter Seven: Bell Speech in John Donne, Richard Wilbur, and Connie Willis?s Doomsday Book
William Tate
Chapter Eight: Finding Love (and Truth?) in the Midst of Chaos: The Influence of Dorothy L. Sayers?s Detective Fiction on To Say Nothing of the Dog
Christine A. Colón
PART V: Genre, Gender, and Xenophobia
Chapter Nine: The Mote in the Jester?s Eye: Aspects of Race and Gender in Connie Willis?s Light Short Fiction
Sylvia Kelso
Chapter Ten: "Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant": Rhetorical Humor in Connie Willis?s Short Fiction
Rosalyn Eves
PART VI: Humanist and Posthumanist Witness
Chapter Eleven: Messages in a Bottle: The Historian?s Ethic in Connie Willis?s Quantum Universe
Kathryn N. McDaniel
Chapter Twelve: Schrödinger?s Cathedrals: Humanist Memory and Posthumanist Sacramentality in Connie Willis?s Fiction
Carissa Turner Smith
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