
Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives
Heidelberg University Publishing
Published on 13. November 2025
Book
Hardback
VI, 311 pages
978-3-96822-193-9 (ISBN)
Description
From climate change to global pandemics, some of the most vexing questions facing postcolonial societies are entangled with the contradictory roles of science in postcolonial contexts. Science is connected to histories of colonial oppression but also to promises of improvement and emancipation; it may be the cause of environmental degradation but also its remedy. This volume engages with the cultural imagination of science and problematises the role of narrative at the intersection of culture and the sciences. Bridging postcolonial studies, literature and science studies, and other traditions, the contributors examine cultural narratives as well as texts from 19th-century utopianism to postcolonial 'science novels' and contemporary science fiction.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
645 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-96822-193-9 (9783968221939)
DOI
10.17885/heiup.1126
Schweitzer Classification