Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Anatomy of science fiction.
Scholars of literature offer theoretical essays mostly on American science fiction but also on the genre in other languages as comparison. Among their topics are epistemology, cultural negotiation, the black female world of Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy, ecology and evolution in Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos, and political myths and social reality in East German science fiction 1949-89. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Art and life in Melanesia.
Cochrane surveys the contemporary art and artists of the Pacific islands from such perspectives as exchanges, Christianity, market, copyright, open learning, cultural politics, urban politics, and diasporas. She includes photographs that she has collected over the years of her study, and some from the archive established by her parents before her. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)