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Real Imaginary: Urban Space in Postcolonial Science Fiction
- Authors: Khoroshevskaya Y.P.1
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Affiliations:
- Rostov State Transport University
- Issue: No 5(899) (2025)
- Pages: 111-117
- Section: Literary criticism
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2542-2197/article/view/297135
- ID: 297135
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Abstract
This study aims to identify the features of the depiction of urban space in postcolonial science fiction. Describing the city as a spatial palimpsest, postcolonial SF refers not only to its horizontal dimension, connecting historical eras, material and intangible objects at one point, but also to the vertical – from the subway underground to storm drains and skyscrapers. The main research methods were the comparative analysis method, the typological method, and postcolonial discursive practices.
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Yuliya Pavlovna Khoroshevskaya
Rostov State Transport University
Author for correspondence.
Email: armaiti@inbox.ru
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at the Department of Mass Communications and Applied Linguistics
Russian FederationReferences
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