Ray Bradbury

Bradbury, Ray - brădˈbĕrˌē, –bərē, 1920–, American writer, b. Waukegan, Ill. A popular and very prolific writer of science fiction, Bradbury skillfully combines social and technological criticism with delightful fantasy. His best-known work is probably The Martian Chronicles (1950), the tale of the ruin of Martian civilization by Read More...

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Ray Bradbury: A Critical Companion
by Robin Anne Reid. 138 pgs.

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Reviewers and critics have not always agreed on how well the science fiction label fit Ray Bradbury, but the immense popularity of works like The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man leaves no doubt as to the enduring status of this important writer. This Critical Companion examines, in a Literary Heritage chapter, the situation of Bradbury's works within the science fiction genre and explores thematic concerns that set works like Fahrenheit 451 and Dandelion Wine apart from conventional popular SF writings. This introduction to Bradbury, written especially for students, traces Bradury's interesting life, examining his early literary efforts, his forays into Hollywood, and his recent writing projects. Eight of Bradbury's major works are discussed at length, each in its own chapter, including two works published within the last ten years: A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990) and Green Shadows, White Whale (1992). Clear, thoughtful analysis is also given for The Martian Chronicles, The IllustratedMan, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Death Is a Lonely Business.

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Advisory Board

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Series Foreword

Acknowledgments

1: The Life of Ray Bradbury

2: Ray Bradbury and the Question of “science Fiction”

3: The Martian Chronicles (1950)

4: The Illustrated Man (1951)

5: Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

6: Dandelion Wine (1957)

7: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962)

8: Death is a Lonely Business (1985)

9: A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990)

10: Green Shadows, White Whale (1992)

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers

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Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide ("Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (1953)" begins on p. 88)
by M. Keith Booker. 412 pgs.

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Dystopian literature is a potent vehicle for criticizing existing social conditions or political systems, and for warning against the potential negative consequences of utopian thought. This reference is a guide to dystopian theory and literature. It discusses the work of key theorists and summarizes several important utopian works to provide a background. The rest of the book summarizes and analyzes numerous dystopian novels, plays, and films.

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Introduction: The Turn to Dystopia in Modern Literature

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Introduction

1: A Guide to Selected Modern Cultural Criticism with Relevance to Dystopian Literature

2: A Guide to Selected Utopian Fictions

Introduction

3: A Guide to Dystopian Fictions

Introduction

4: A Guide to Selected Dystopian Drama

Introduction

Introduction

5: A Guide to Selected Dystopian Films

Bibliography

Index

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No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction (Chap. 11 "Mass Degradation of Humanity and Massive Contradictions in Bradbury's Vision of America in Fahrenheit 451")
by Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander. 280 pgs.

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Preface

I: Atavism and Utopia

2: The Coming Race: Hell? or Paradise Foretasted?

3: "The Mirror Up to Nature": Reflections of Victorianism in Samuel Butler's Erewhon

4: Zamiatin's We

5: Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men

6: On Brave New World

7: The Shape of Things to Come: H. G. Wells and the Rhetoric of Proteus

8: Mixing Behaviorism and Utopia: The Transformations of Walden Two

9: Utopia Reconsidered: Comments on 1984

10: Vonnegut's Player Piano: an Ambiguous Technological Dystopia

11: Mass Degradation of Humanity and Massive Contradictions in Bradbury's Vision of America in Fahrenheit 451

12: On Aggression: William Golding's Lord of the Flies

13: Robert Silverberg's The World Inside

14: Chronosophy, Aesthetics, and Ethics in Le Guin's the Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

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Bridges to Fantasy ("The Unconscious, Fantasy, and Science Fiction: Transformations in Bradbury's Martian Chronicles and Lem's Solaris" begins on p. 142)
by George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, Robert Scholes. 231 pgs.

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Introduction Toward A Theory of Fantasy: Essays from the Eaton Conference

Clinamen: Towards A Theory of Fantasy

Form, Formula, and Fantasy: Generative Structures in Contemporary Fiction

A VIew from Inside the Fishbowl: Julio Cortázar's "Axolotl"

The Meeting of Parallel LInes: Science, Fiction, and Science Fiction

On Realistic and Fantastic Discourse

The Audience in Children's LIterature

The Apparition of This World: Transcendentalism and the American "Ghost" Story

Fantasy and "Forestructures": The Effect of Philosophical Climate Upon Perceptions of the Fantastic

The Logic of Wings: García Márquez, Todorov, and the Endless Resources of Fantasy

Power Fantasy in the "Science Fiction" of Mark Twain

The Unconscious, Fantasy, and Science Fiction: Transformations in Bradbury'S Martian Chronicles and Lem's Solaris

Confronting the Alien: Fantasy and Anti-Fantasy in Science Fiction Film and Literature

The Search for Fantasy: from Primitive Man to Pornography

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Notes

Biographical Notes

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To Build a Mirror Factory: The Mirror and Self-Examination in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, in Critique
by Rafeeq O. McGiveron. 6 pgs.

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The Writer Observed ("Ray Bradbury" begins on p. 207)
by Harvey Breit. 290 pgs.

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Introduction

T. S. Eliot

Robert E. Sherwood

Evelyn Waugh

J. P. Marquand

E. M. Forster

Arnold Toynbee

Albert Schweitzer

Christopher Morley

Angela Thirkell

Robert Hillyer

John O'Hara

Nelson Algren

Alan Paton

Robert Frost

William Carlos Williams

Henry Green

Elizabeth Bowen

Christine Weston

Charles Jackson

Robert Nathan

Dylan Thomas

Aldous Huxley

Robert Penn Warren

Wilbur Daniel Steele

Budd Schulberg

John Dos Passos

W. Somerset Maugham And Evelyn Waugh

Frances Parkinson Keyes

Conrad Aiken

E. E. Cummings

James Norman Hall

Joyce Cary

Noel Coward

Cecil Woodham-Smith

James Jones

Arthur Koestler

Helen Macinnes And Gilbert Highet

J. B. Priestley

Frank Yerby

Norman Mailer

Malcolm Cowley

Ray Bradbury

Phyllis Mcginley

Christopher Isherwood

Van Wyck Brooks

Jean Stafford

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Dylan Thomas

Truman Capote

C. S. Forester

Ralph Ellison

George Jean Nathan

Carl Sandburg

James Thurber

Frank O'Connor

Ernest Hemingway

Edmund Wilson

Saul Bellow

Ernest Hemingway

William Faulkner

Index of Authors Interviewed

About the Author
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The Celebration of the Fantastic: Selected Papers from the Tenth Anniversary International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts ("Homage to Melville: Ray Bradbury and the Nineteenth-Century American Romance" begins on p. 279)
by Donald E. Morse, Marshall B. Tymn, Csilla Bertha. 314 pgs.

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The 25 essays in this collection represent the best contributions to the Tenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts and reflect contemporary criticism of the fantastic including both theory and practice. Some of the writers considered in this volume are Stephen King, Doris Lessing, Rudyard Kipling, Loren Eiseley, Mary Stewart, Bernard Malamud, Orson Scott Card, Toni Morrison, Henry James and Ray Bradbury. The book also critiques television personalities, film directors, and German and Hungarian visual artists. The essays probe the essential theme of the fantastic: the testing of the limits of civilization as writers and artists explore the hidden and the repressed.

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Illustrations

Preface

Introduction. Celebrating the Fantastic: This "Enormous and Seductive Subject"

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1: Theory

Victorian and Modern Fantasy: Some Contrasts

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The Greatest Fantasy on Earth: The Superweapon in Fiction and Fact

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Pagan Survival: Why the Shaman in Modern Fantasy?

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Some Thoughts on Modernism and Science Fiction (Suggested by Robert Silverberg's Downward to the Earth.)

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Godmaking in the Heartland: The Backgrounds of Orson Scott Card's American Fantasy Brian Attebery

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2: Myth and Legend

"What Dreams May Come?":: Relativity of Perception in Doris Lessing's Briefing for a Descent into Hell

Kipling's Myth of Making: Creation and Contradiction in Puck of Pook's Hill

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Mithraic Aspects of Merlin in Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave

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Dolorous Strokes, or, Balin at the Bat: Malamud, Malory, and Chrétien

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Autobiography as Science Fiction: The Strange Case of Loren Eiseley

3: The Supernatural

The Fifth Child: Lessing's Subversion of the Pastoral

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The Ghost and the Self: The Supernatural Fiction of Henry James

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Toni Morrison's Beloved: Rememory, History, and the Fantastic

4: Visual Arts: Painting, Film, and Television

Csontváry, the Painter of the "Sun's Path"

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Eros and Thanatos: The Art of Alfred Kubin on the Edge of the Other Side

Fantasy According to "Mister Roger's Neighborhood" and In the Night Kitchen

Virtual Space and its Boundaries in Science Fiction Film and Television: Tron, "Max Headroom" and WarGames

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Giving the Devil More Than His Due: The Witches of Eastwick as Fiction and Film Kenneth Jurkiewicz

The Monomyth in Time Travel Films

5: Science Fiction

Astronauts, Angels, and Time Machines: The Fantastic in Recent German Democratic Republic Literature

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Legitimate Sequels: Character Structures and The Subject in Greg Bear's Sequel Novels

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Joe Haldeman: Cyberpunk Before Cyberpunk Was Cool?

6: Fantasy and Horror

Feminist Fantasy and Open Structure in Monique Wittig's Les Guérillère s

Art Versus Madness in Stephen King's Misery

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Homage to Melville: Ray Bradbury and the Nineteenth-Century American Romance

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Index

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Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction and Fantasy ("Fahrenheit 451 and the 'Cubby-Hole Editors' of Ballantine Books" begins on p. 99)
by George E. Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin, Robert Scholes. 210 pgs.

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Introduction

The Criticism of Science Fiction

The Descent of Fantasy

How New Is New?

Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of Science Fiction

Manifest Destiny: Science Fiction and Classical Form

"All You Have to Do Is Know What You Want": Individual Expectations in Triton

Autoplastic and Alloplastic Adaptations in Science Fiction: "Waldo" and "Desertion"

Science Fiction for the Age of Inflation: Reading Atlas Shrugged in the 1980s

Fahrenheit 451 and the "Cubby-Hole Editors" of Ballantine Books

Rider Haggard's Heart of Darkness

She in Herland: Feminism as Fantasy

Death and the Mirror: Existential Fantasy

Notes

Biographical Notes

Index
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The Connecticut Yankee in the Twentieth Century: Travel to the Past in Science Fiction ("Ray Bradbury" begins on p. 47)
by Bud Foote. 214 pgs.

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The first examples of travel to the past appear early in the 19th century, but it was not until the publication of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court that we see a hero taking advantage of a combination of hindsight and advances in technology to build an empire in the past. Concentrating on travel to the past, this study details, both in Twain's seminal work and in its science fiction successors, the various roles played by the traveller to the past--nostalgic, tourist, imperialist, Oedipal hero and existential isolate--and attempts to relate these roles both to the rest of Twain's work and to the world-view of contemporary America.

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Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy

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PREFACE

Chapter 1 Three Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Chapter 2 Time Travel: Definitions, Problems, Rules, Limits

Chapter 3 Children of the Yankee: the Nostalgics

Chapter 4 Children of the Yankee: the Innocents Abroad

SUMMARY

Chapter 5 Children of the Yankee: Cecil Rhodes and Company

Chapter 6 Children of the Yankee: Dear Old Dad and His Girl

Chapter 7 Children of the Yankee: These Curious Strangers

SUMMARY

Chapter 8 Stepchildren of the Yankee

Chapter 9 of Time and the River

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About the Author
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The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature: Fiction as Social Criticism (Discussion of Ray Bradbury begins on p. 106)
by M. Keith Booker. 202 pgs.

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While literary utopias depict an ideal society and reflect an optimistic belief in the triumph of humanity and government, dystopias present a society marked by suffering caused by human and political evils. This book offers a detailed study of several literary dystopias and analyzes them as social criticism. The volume begins with a discussion of utopias, dystopias, and social criticism. By drawing upon the theories of Freud, Nietzsche, and others, Booker sets a firm theoretical foundation for the literary explorations that follow. The chapters that come next discuss Zamyatin's We, Huxley's Brave New World, and Orwell's 1984 as social criticism of totalitarianism, Stalinism, the dangers of capitalism, and fascism. Later chapters consider dystopias after World War II, contemporary communist dystopias, and postmodernist dystopias in the West.

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Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Introduction: Utopia, Dystopia, and Social Critique

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1: Zamyatin's We: Anticipating Stalin

NOTES

2: Huxley's Brave New World: The Early Bourgeois Dystopia

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3: Orwell's 1984: The Totalitarian Dystopia after Stalin

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4: The Bourgeois Dystopia After World War II

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5: Postmodernism with a Russian Accent: The Contemporary Communist Dystopia

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6: Skepticism Squared: Western Postmodernist Dystopias

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Postscript: Literature and Dystopia

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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story ("Ray Bradbury (1920-)" begins on p. 162)
by Blanche H. Gelfant, Lawrence Graver. 880 pgs.

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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story

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Contributors

The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story

Introduction

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Part I: Thematic Essays

The American Short Story Cycle

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The American Short Story, 1807–1900

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The African American Short Story

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The Asian American Short Story

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The Chicano-Latino Short Story

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The Ecological Short Story

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Lesbian and Gay Short Stories

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The Native American Short Story

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Non-English American Short Stories

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The American Working-Class Short Story

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American Short Stories of the Holocaust

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Part II: Individual Writers and Their Work

Alice Adams (1926–1999)

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Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941)

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James Baldwin (1924–1987)

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John Earth (1930– )

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Donald Barthelme (1931–1989)

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Rick Bass (1959– )

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Richard Bausch (1945– )

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Charles Baxter (1947– )

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Ann Beattie (1947– )

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Saul Bellow (1915– )

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Gina Berriault (1926– )

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Doris Betts (1932– )

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Paul Bowles (1910–1999)

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Kay Boyle (1902–1992)

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Ray Bradbury (l920– )

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Kate Braverman (1950– )

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Larry Brown (1951– )

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Erskine Caldwell (1903–1987)

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Hortense Calisher (1911– )

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Truman Capote (1924–1984)

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Raymond Carver (1938–1988)

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Willa Gather (1873–1947)

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John Cheever (1912–1982)

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Sandra Cisneros (1954– )

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Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909–1971)

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Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1930– )

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Robert Coover (1932– )

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Lydia Davis (1947– )

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1953– )

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Andre Dubus (1936–1999)

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Deborah Eisenberg (1946– )

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Stanley Elkin (1930–1995)

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George P. Elliott (1918–1980)

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John Fante (1909–1983)

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James T. Farrell (1904–1979)

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William Faulkner (1897–1962)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

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Richard Ford (1944– )

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Mary Gaitskill (1954– )

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William H. Gass (1924– )

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Ellen Gilchrist (1935– )

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Herbert Gold (1924– )

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Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

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Amy Hempel (1951– )

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Mary Hood (1946– )

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Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

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Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

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Shirley Jackson (1916–1965)

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Jamaica Kincaid (1949– )

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Ring Lardner (1885–1933)

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David Leavitt (1961– )

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Ursula K. le Guin (1929– )

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Meridel le Sueur (1900–1996)

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Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (1944– )

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Jack London (1876–1916)

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David Wong Louie (1954– )

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Norman Mailer (1923– )

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Bernard Malamud (1914–1986)

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Bobbie Ann Mason (1940– )

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Mary Mccarthy (1912–1989)

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Elizabeth Mccracken (1966– )

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Carson Mccullers (1917–1967)

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Thomas Mcguane (1939– )

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James Alan Mcpherson (1943– )

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Nicholasa Mohr (1938– )

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Lorrie Moore (1957– )

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Toshio Mori (1910–1980)

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Bharati Mukherjee (1940– )

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Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

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Joyce Carol Gates (1938– )

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Tim O Brien (1946– )

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Flannery O Connor (1925–1964)

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John O Kara (1905–1970)

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Tillie Olsen (1913?– )

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Simon Ortiz (1941– )

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Cynthia Ozick (1928– )

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Grace Paley (1922– )

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Americo Paredes (1915–1999)

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Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

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Jayne Anne Phillips (1952– )

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Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)

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William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) (1862–1910)

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Annie Proulx (1935– )

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Thomas Pynchon (1937– )

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896–1953)

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Alberto Alvaro Rios (1952– )

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Philip Roth (1933– )

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Damon Runyon (1880–1946)

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J. D. Salinger (1919– )

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Bienvenido N. Santos (1911–1996)

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William Saroyan (1908–1981)

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Delmore Schwartzs (1913–1966)

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Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- )

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Jean Stafford (1915–1979)

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Wallace Stegner (1909–1993)

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John Steinbeck (1902–1968)

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Elizabeth Tallent (1954– )

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Peter Taylor (1917–1994)

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James Thurber (1894–1961)

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John Updike (1932– )

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Helena María Viramontes (1954– )

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Anna Lee Walters (1946– )

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Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)

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Sylvia A. Watanabe (1953– )

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Eudora Welty (1909– )

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Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

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Joy Williams (1944– )

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Tennessee Williams (1911–1983)

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William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

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Tobias Wolff (1945– )

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Richard Wright (1908–1960)

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Hisaye Yamamoto (1921– )

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Anzia Yezierska (1881–1970)

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Into Darkness Peering: Race and Color in the Fantastic (Discussion of Ray Bradbury begins on p. 86)
by Elisabeth Anne Leonard. 212 pgs.

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Unlike many classic works of fiction, literature of the fantastic enjoys mass popularity. Because the fantastic is so much a part of popular culture, fantasy literature can represent or address the racial attitudes of its audience. Representations of race in the fantastic provide a measure of the concern the culture has for racial matters. If a work is racist, whether consciously or not, it may perpetuate racist attitudes unless it is carefully examined. At the same time, literature of the fantastic is able to present possible worlds rather than real ones. It is thus a literature of possibility, in which racial matters may be addressed and exposed, so that readers may become more conscious of the evils of racist attitudes. This volume explores the significance of race and color in the works of a wide range of authors, including Octavia Butler, Robert Heinlein, Stephen King, and Robert Silverberg.

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Recent Titles in Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Acknowledgments

1: Introduction: "Into Darkness Peering"-- Race and Color in the Fantastic

2: Mixed Genres and True Heritages: from Trollope's Ralph the Heir to Delany's Dhalgren

3: Octavia E. Butler: Parables of Race and Difference

4: Exploring Color Coding at the Beginning and End of the Twentieth Century in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

5: Race and Color Coding in Leslie F. Stone's "The Human Pets of Mars": Reflections for the Repertoire of the Multicultural Classroom

6: "You Don't Know What You Are Talking About": Robert A. Heinlein and the Racism of American Science Fiction

7: Race and Subjectivity in Science Fiction: Deterritorializing the Self/Other Dichotomy

8: The Excesses of Cyberpunk: Why No One Mentions Race in Cyberspace

9: Creole Identity Politics, Race, and Star Trek: Voyager

10: Reclaiming the Invisible World: Maryse Condý's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

11: Reading King Darkly: Issues of Race in Stephen King's Novels

12: Enlightening the Alien Savages: Colonialism in the Novels of Robert Silverberg

13: "Differences Make Me Curious": Race, Sexuality, and Class in The Chronicles of Tornor

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The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guin (Discussion of Ray Bradbury begins on p. 135)
by Brian Attebery. 224 pgs.

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Preface

One: Locating Fantasy

Two: Fantasy and the Folk Tradition

Three: Belief, Legend, and Romance

Four: Fantasy for American Children

Five: Oz

Six: Fantasy and Escape

Seven: The Baum Tradition

Eight: After Tolkien

Notes

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