Lexington Books
Pages: 218
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-4985-0796-7 • Hardback • December 2017 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4985-0797-4 • eBook • December 2017 • $105.50 • (£82.00)
Susana Loza is associate professor of critical race, gender, and media studies at Hampshire College.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Playing Alien in Post-Racial Times
Chapter 2: Colonial Cosplay: Steampunk and the After-Life of Empire
Chapter 3: Imperial Fictions, Post-Racial Fantasies: Doctor Who in the Age of Neoliberal Multiculturalism
Chapter 4: Monkeys, Monsters, and Minstrels in Rise and Dawn of the Planetof The Apes
Afterword: Trumpacolypse Now, Decolonized Tomorrows
Far-ranging, provocative, and so damn smart… Loza takes us on a wild ride through steampunk, Doctor Who and Planet of the Apes, tracking the sinister afterlife of settler colonialism in the monstrous imaginaries of our popular culture.
— Junot Díaz, Author of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Susana Loza’s Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times is a much needed and cutting edge critical intervention in monster studies, speculative fiction, and critical ethnic studies. Contextualized within cultural and political histories, it offers timely and intersectionally nuanced readings of popular culture that persuasively lead us to this contemporary moment in which white supremacy and imperialism have boiled over in increasingly dangerous ways. Loza’s text illuminates the intricate and shifting relations of power that underlie so-called benign postracial monsters.
— Bernadette Marie Calafell, University of Denver