Subversion and the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis in Contemporary Science Fiction

This article points out the ways in which the relationship between language and political resistance are problematized in “meta-linguistic” science fiction novels after the 1980s. Although the 20th century anti-utopias tend to view language as a prison house for thought and self-determination under...

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Autor principal:	Can Koparan
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Alfredo Mac Laughlin 2020
Materias:	Philosophy (General) B1-5802 Literature (General) PN1-6790
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/b225e96cdf00468cba0961b9d3dd0894
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b225e96cdf00468cba0961b9d3dd08942021-11-15T19:19:57ZSubversion and the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis in Contemporary Science Fiction2573-881Xhttps://doaj.org/article/b225e96cdf00468cba0961b9d3dd08942020-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://jsfphil.org/vol-3/koparan-subversion-and-the-sapir-whorf-hypothesis/https://doaj.org/toc/2573-881XThis article points out the ways in which the relationship between language and political resistance are problematized in “meta-linguistic” science fiction novels after the 1980s. Although the 20th century anti-utopias tend to view language as a prison house for thought and self-determination under oppressive regimes, Suzette Haden Elgin’s Native Tongue (1984), Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992) and China Miéville’s Embassytown (2011) are distinct novels in the tradition of language-related science fiction, in the sense that these texts imagine possibilities of resisting oppressive power structures by exploring similar conceptions of language as a way of transforming cultural, perceptual and political realities. The article analyzes these novels where resistance is enacted in the forms of language construction, digital world-making and metaphorical language, in order to question their political and fictional potentials for formulizing subversion in our imagined futures.Can KoparanAlfredo Mac LaughlinarticlePhilosophy (General)B1-5802Literature (General)PN1-6790ENJournal of Science Fiction and Philosophy, Vol 3, Pp 1-19 (2020)
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description	This article points out the ways in which the relationship between language and political resistance are problematized in “meta-linguistic” science fiction novels after the 1980s. Although the 20th century anti-utopias tend to view language as a prison house for thought and self-determination under oppressive regimes, Suzette Haden Elgin’s Native Tongue (1984), Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992) and China Miéville’s Embassytown (2011) are distinct novels in the tradition of language-related science fiction, in the sense that these texts imagine possibilities of resisting oppressive power structures by exploring similar conceptions of language as a way of transforming cultural, perceptual and political realities. The article analyzes these novels where resistance is enacted in the forms of language construction, digital world-making and metaphorical language, in order to question their political and fictional potentials for formulizing subversion in our imagined futures.
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Subversion and the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis in Contemporary Science Fiction

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