Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/sfs.2024.a920233
A.J. Rocca
ABSTRACT: Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren (1975) moves through different genres and styles of literature in much the same way that Walter Benjamin's flaneur moves through the spaces of the city. Delany as a writer makes contact with any number of other traditions outside of science fiction, but he expresses no radical desire to revolutionize sf or move it into mainstream literature. Delany does not assimilate or synthesize outside influences into his work so much as he encounters them. In Starboard Wine (1984), his book of sf criticism, Delany defines "encounter" in literature as the interpretation of a text associated with one genre through the reading protocols associated with another. I argue that "encounter" is analogous to "contact," a concept from Delany's Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999) that relates to the real, physical interaction of individuals in an urban environment. Nowhere is this convergence of literary encounter and urban contact clearer than in his novel, Dhalgren. Dhalgren uses the city as a conceptual framework for encounters among a diverse array of influences including myth, poetry, autobiography, and literary modernism. These types of encounters are also plentiful in Delany's earlier work, but Dhalgren pushes them to a point where even sf itself is decentered and becomes just one more thing to be met in the space of the city.
ABSTRACT: 塞缪尔-R-德兰尼的《达尔格伦》（Dhalgren，1975 年）就像沃尔特-本雅明笔下的 "flaneur "在城市空间中穿梭一样，在不同流派和风格的文学作品中穿梭。作为一名作家，德兰尼接触了科幻小说以外的许多其他传统，但他并没有表达彻底改变科幻小说或将其纳入主流文学的激进愿望。德兰尼并没有将外部影响同化或综合到自己的作品中，而是与它们相遇。在《星盘酒》（Starboard Wine，1984 年）--他的 Sf 评论著作--中，Delany 将文学中的 "遭遇 "定义为通过与另一种流派相关的阅读规程来解读与一种流派相关的文本。我认为，"相遇 "类似于 "接触"，这是德兰尼的《时代广场红，时代广场蓝》（Times Square Red, Times Square Blue，1999 年）中的一个概念，涉及城市环境中个人之间真实的、身体上的互动。在德兰尼的小说《达尔格伦》中，文学邂逅与城市接触的交汇最为明显。达尔格伦》以城市为概念框架，讲述了受神话、诗歌、自传和现代主义文学等各种影响的相遇。这些类型的邂逅在德兰尼早期的作品中也比比皆是，但《达尔格伦》将它们推向了一个新的境界，甚至连 sf 本身也被去中心化，成为在城市空间中需要邂逅的另一种事物。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/sfs.2024.a920237
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/sfs.2024.a920234
Carissa Ma
ABSTRACT: In Priya Sarukkai Chabria's science-fiction novel Clone (2019), the central character Clone 14/54/G is a cyborg replica of her Original, named Aa-Aa, an incarcerated dissident writer who met a violent death just before delivering a potentially incendiary public address. Against her programming, the mutant Clone experiences flashbacks (or "visitations") of her Original's past life and fictional oeuvre, which makes it possible for her to revisit disparate temporalities of Indian history. While many existing interventions attempt to extend or apply the familiar conventions of postcolonial analysis to works of postcolonial science fiction, this essay sets out to ask rather how the emergence of the latter serves to both reconfigure and reclaim the affective stakes of an anti-imperialist politics that avoids a straightforward historical determinism. By reading Chabria's sf novel through affective articulations of spectrality and queer temporality, I present the novel as a form of narrative crypt that provides a phantasmal space for the spectral return of those who have been silenced or erased from history, not only as a consequence of their gender, race, and class, but also because of their inability or refusal to comply with the normative temporal rhythms of the society in which they live.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/sfs.2024.a920241
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/sfs.2024.a920230
Brian Attebery
ABSTRACT: Science fiction claims Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as a progenitor on the basis of its extrapolation from speculations by Erasmus Darwin and others about the nature and origins of life. An equally strong narrative thread in the novel about extraordinary states of mind is usually taken as evidence of its grounding in supernatural and gothic fiction. The novel applies the same materialist assumptions and reasoned approach to dreaming, however, that it uses to explore biological science. Reading it in the context, first, of David Hartley's eighteenth-century Observations on Man and, second, of contemporary studies of the dreaming brain, we can see that Frankenstein is also science fiction of a different sort than usually supposed, a thought experiment about states of consciousness and unconsciousness and the strange experiences that arise from disrupting the boundary between sleep and waking.
ABSTRACT: 玛丽-雪莱（Mary Shelley）的《弗兰肯斯坦》是科幻小说的鼻祖，其依据是从伊拉斯谟-达尔文（Erasmus Darwin）等人对生命的本质和起源的推测中推演出来的。小说中关于非同寻常的精神状态的叙事线索同样强烈，这通常被认为是小说以超自然和哥特式小说为基础的证据。然而，小说对梦境采用了与探索生物科学相同的唯物主义假设和推理方法。首先，从大卫-哈特利（David Hartley）十八世纪的《人的观察》（Observations on Man），其次，从当代对做梦大脑的研究来看，我们可以发现《弗兰肯斯坦》也是一部不同于通常想象的科幻小说，它是关于意识和无意识状态的思想实验，以及破坏睡眠和清醒之间的界限所产生的奇特体验。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/sfs.2024.a920232
Michael O'Krent
ABSTRACT: This article reconsiders Samuel R. Delany's theory of science fiction as a form of language in order to develop the notion that science fiction is a method of making meaning and reading texts. Three stories by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, "The Aleph," "The Library of Babel," and "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," are read as science fiction to demonstrate how the method functions. Borges's ambiguous relationship with science fiction during his lifetime is well-documented, but no previous study of Borges as a science-fiction writer exists in English. The notion of science fiction as a way of reading enables a reading that treats the elements of textual playfulness that make Borges's texts so beloved throughout literary studies as science fictional, because they encourage the reader to reconstruct an alternate world around the text and create a comprehensive theory of how that world works.
ABSTRACT: 本文重新考虑了塞缪尔-R-德兰尼（Samuel R. Delany）关于科幻小说是一种语言形式的理论，从而提出科幻小说是一种创造意义和阅读文本的方法这一概念。文章将阿根廷作家豪尔赫-路易斯-博尔赫斯（Jorge Luis Borges）的三篇小说《阿莱夫》（The Aleph）、《巴别图书馆》（The Library of Babel）和《特隆，乌克巴，第三宇宙轨道》（Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius）作为科幻小说进行解读，以展示这种方法是如何发挥作用的。博尔赫斯生前与科幻小说的暧昧关系有据可查，但此前没有任何关于博尔赫斯作为科幻小说家的英文研究。科幻小说是一种阅读方法，这种阅读方法可以将博尔赫斯文本中的游戏性元素视为科幻小说，因为这些元素使博尔赫斯的文本在文学研究中备受喜爱，它们鼓励读者围绕文本重建一个另类世界，并创建一个关于该世界如何运作的综合理论。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/sfs.2024.a920236
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