{"product_id":"story-matrices-gillian-polack-9781913387914","title":"Story Matrices","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe culture we live in shapes us. We also shape the culture we live in. Stories we tell play critical roles in this shaping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe heart of cultural transmission is how stories and the way we shape knowledge come together and make a novel work. How do they combine within the novel? Genre writing plays a critical role in demonstrating how this transmission functions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScience fiction and fantasy illustrate this through shared traditions and understanding, colonialism, diasporic experiences, own voices, ethics, selective forgetting and silencing. They illuminate ways in which speculative fiction is important for cultural transmission.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis study uses cultural encoding and baggage within speculative fiction to decode critical elements of modern English-language culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gillian Polack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1913387917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781913387914\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Luna Press Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/05\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.47d","brand":"Gillian Polack","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046286684415,"sku":"9781913387914","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7ec4d53e-fe9d-4d7f-a6e4-a30f67a076e0.jpg?v=1684983716","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/story-matrices-gillian-polack-9781913387914","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}