Out of This World

Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to the New Millennium

Out of This World
Rachel S Cordasco
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Hardback
h235 x 156mm - 328pg
28 Dec 2021 US
9780252043987
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The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion of speculative fiction in translation (SFT). Rachel Cordasco examines speculative fiction published in English translation since 1960, ranging from Soviet-era fiction to the Arabic-language dystopias that emerged following the Iraq War. Individual chapters on SFT from Korean, Czech, Finnish, and eleven other source languages feature an introduction by an expert in the language' s speculative fiction tradition and its present-day output. Cordasco then breaks down each chapter by subgenre--including science fiction, fantasy, and horror--to guide readers toward the kinds of works that most interest them. Her discussion of available SFT stands alongside an analysis of how various subgenres emerged and developed in a given language. She also examines the reasons a given subgenre has been translated into English. An informative and one-of-a-kind guide, Out of This World offers readers and scholars alike a tour of speculative fiction' s new globalized era.
Rachel Cordasco founded the website SFinTranslation. com. She works as a writer, editor, and translator and is co-translator of Clelia Ferris' s Creative Surgery.
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ISBN-13: 9780252043987
Published: 28 Dec 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 328

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