Science-fiction Studies, Volume 30, Issue 2SFS Publications, 2003 - Science fiction |
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For a modern sensibility that had begun to take “ purification ” as a given , hybridity , metaphorized in the figure of a living mummy , seemed the stuff of horror . Films of the Machine Age offered moviegoers an array of monstrous ...
For a modern sensibility that had begun to take “ purification ” as a given , hybridity , metaphorized in the figure of a living mummy , seemed the stuff of horror . Films of the Machine Age offered moviegoers an array of monstrous ...
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... the social science tribe , an opening salvo was James Clifford's edited collection Writing Culture ( 1986 ) , a reminder that writing about people / s ( ethnography ) is fictive ; the writer makes or figures ( fictio , fingere ) .
... the social science tribe , an opening salvo was James Clifford's edited collection Writing Culture ( 1986 ) , a reminder that writing about people / s ( ethnography ) is fictive ; the writer makes or figures ( fictio , fingere ) .
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Ross figures largely in Ghosh's novel , though not as heroically as in the official histories . “ A virtuoso of disease , " the mosquito will bite almost anything and it travels easily , crossing boundaries between human and animal ...
Ross figures largely in Ghosh's novel , though not as heroically as in the official histories . “ A virtuoso of disease , " the mosquito will bite almost anything and it travels easily , crossing boundaries between human and animal ...
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