Orbiting Ray Bradbury's Mars : biographical, anthropological, literary, scientific and other perspectives / edited by Gloria McMillan ; foreword by Peter Smith.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]
Description
ix, 253 pages ; 23 cm.

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Editor
Editor of compilation
McMillan, Gloria (Professor) [Browse]
Series
Summary note
"This essay collection explores the life and work of sf doyen Ray Bradbury. Some essays analyze Bradbury's southwest metaphors, some via the lens of post-colonialism or they view Bradbury sociologically, analyzing border issues in his 1947 "I See You Never." From the scientific side, Bradbury forms a significant link between the worlds of fiction and planetary science"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. One Biographical Lens
  • Miracles of Rare Device: Bradbury and the American Southwest / Jonathan R. Eller
  • The Sorcerers Apprentices: How the Lives of Three Regional "Weird Fiction" Writers Became Creatively Entangled / Wolf Forrest
  • pt. Two Anthropological Lens
  • Prescient Border Crossing: "I See You Never" and the Undocumented Mexicans Americans Prefer Not to See / Marleen S. Barr
  • Bradbury's Survivance Stories / Grace L. Dillon
  • A "Night Meeting" in the Southwest: Hospitality in The Martian Chronicles / Adam Lawrence
  • Illustrating Otherness: Crossing Frontiers in The Illustrated Man / Francisco Laguna-Correa
  • pt. Three Literary Lens
  • Loss in the Language of Tomorrow: Journeying Through Tucson on the Way to "Usher II" / Aaron Barlow
  • Bradbury's Mars: Pathway to Reinvention and Redemption / Kimberly Fain
  • The Desert Is Earth and Mars: An Ecocritical, Bachelardian Exploration of "And the Moon Be Still as Bright" and It Came from Outer Space / Christopher Cokinos
  • pt. Four Scientific Lens
  • Why Does Mars Beckon Us? / Ari Espinoza
  • The Exploration of Mars: An Unintentional Invasion? / David M. Acklam
  • A Martian Chronicle / Charles L. Dugan, Jr.
  • The Naming of Names / Carol Stoker
  • pt. Five Media Lens
  • De-Alienating the Alien: The Limits of Empathy in NBC's The Martian Chronicles Miniseries / Paul Cote
  • The Illustrated Man Illustrates Our Future / Howard Allen
  • Silver Locusts on the Silver Screen: Bradbury's Western Mars Confronts 1960s British Art-Cinema / Martin R. Hall
  • pt. Six Educational Lens
  • Teaching Martians in Tucson / Gloria McMillan.
ISBN
  • 9780786475766 (softcover : alk. paper)
  • 0786475765 (softcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2013031526
OCLC
857141273
RCP
H - S
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