Following World War II, the Fleuve Noir publishing house published popular American genre fiction in translation for a French audience. Their imprint Anticipation specialized in science fiction, but mostly eschewed translations from English, preferring instead French work, thus making the imprint an important outlet for native French postwar ideas and aesthetics. This critical text examines in ideological terms eleven writers who published under the Anticipation imprint, revealing the way these writers criticized midcentury notions of progress while adapting and reworking American genre formats.
| ISBN: | 9780786458578 |
| Publication date: | 12th November 2010 |
| Author: | Bradford Lyau |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 238 pages |
| Series: | Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Science Fiction Fantasy |
Following World War II, the Fleuve Noir publishing house published popular American genre fiction in translation for a French audience. Their imprint Anticipation specialized in science fiction, but mostly eschewed translations from English, preferring instead French work, thus making the imprint an important outlet for native French postwar ideas and aesthetics. This critical text examines in ideological terms eleven writers who published under the Anticipation imprint, revealing the way these writers criticized midcentury notions of progress while adapting and reworking American genre formats.
The Anticipation Novelists of 1950S French Science Fiction features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Science Fiction, Fantasy
The Anticipation Novelists of 1950S French Science Fiction is available in Paperback
The Anticipation Novelists of 1950S French Science Fiction was written by Bradford Lyau and published by McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
The Anticipation Novelists of 1950S French Science Fiction has 238 pages
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