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- Title
Introduction to the Special Section, "The Ordinariness of Cross‐Time Relations: Anthropology, Literature, and the Science Fictional".
- Authors
Brandel, Andrew; Khan, Naveeda
- Abstract
SUMMARY: This introduction orients the reader to the experiments with thinking inter‐disciplinarily in this special section of Anthropology and Humanism. A long history of shared conversation between science fiction and anthropology has both been shadowed by colonialism and offered promising resources for remaking the world. We invited anthropologists, film critics, and literary theorists into conversation without assuming in advance to know what constitutes a genre like science fiction. Instead, we focus on how science fiction emerges in diverse contexts. Science fiction gives us pleasure; it has insurgent qualities which are not yet captured. Our appreciation of it grows from its engagement with the ordinary and the quotidian. It may engage time in ways other than the past‐present‐future, making us realize the impossibilities we have internalized and naturalized in our account of things. Ultimately, the collective realization of the authors in this section is that science fictionality is a fugitive element in the world. We need it for fabulation, to generate new ways of telling stories to forge new impossibilities. [science fiction; anthropology of time; anthropology and literature; the ordinary; fabulation]
- Subjects
ANTHROPOLOGY; STORYTELLING; FILM critics; SCIENCE fiction; HUMANISM; LITERATURE
- Publication
Anthropology & Humanism, 2023, Vol 48, Issue 1, p136
- ISSN
1559-9167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/anhu.12417