Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination by Elana ... - 9781441144027

Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal ImaginationAuthor(s): Elana Gomel\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation, United States\nImprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation\nISBN-13: 9781441144027, 978-1441144027\nSynopsis\nAre we living in a post-temporal age? Has history come to an end? This book argues against the widespread perception of postmodern narrativity as atemporal and ahistorical, claiming that postmodernity is characterized by an explosion of heterogeneous narrative \""timeshapes\"" or chronotopes. Chronological linearity is being challenged by quantum physics that implies temporal simultaneity; by evolutionary theory that charts multiple time-lines; and by religious and political millenarianism that espouses an apocalyptic finitude of both time and space. While science, religion, and politics have generated new narrative forms of apprehending temporality, literary incarnations can be found in the worlds of science fiction. By engaging classic scien.