Ann Leckie's Ancillary justice : a critical companion / David M. Higgins.
Higgins, D. M., author.
2022
PS3612.E3353
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Title Ann Leckie's Ancillary justice : a critical companion / David M. Higgins.
Author Higgins, D. M., author.
ISBN 9783031182617 (electronic bk.)
3031182618 (electronic bk.)
303118260X
9783031182600
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18261-7
Imprint Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-18261-7 doi
Call Number PS3612.E3353
Dewey Decimal Classification 813/.6
Summary "From racial capitalism and neo-imperialism to gender expression and revolutionary agency, Higgins writes with nuance and generosity to all potential readers about the real-world conditions that lie just under the surface of Leckie's far-future space opera. A big-hearted masterwork of accessible criticism, this is a book that you will want to share with students and colleagues alike." Rebekah Sheldon, Associate Professor of English, Indiana University, Bloomington, and author of The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe (2016) "David Higgins gives us a masterful analysis of Ancillary Justice, the first novel in Leckie's trilogy, deftly tracing the book's major themes, together with its unusual use of language, and showing how the novel helps us think about the most urgent concerns of our present moment." Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University. This book argues that Ann Leckies novel Ancillary Justice offers a devastating rebuke to the political, social, cultural, and economic injustices of American imperialism in the post 9/11 era. Following an introductory overview, the study offers four chapters that examine key themes central to the novel: gender, imperial economics, race, and revolutionary agency. Ancillary Justices exploration of these four themes, and the way it reveals how these issues are all fundamentally entangled with the problem of contemporary imperial power, warrants its status as a canonical work of science fiction for the twenty-first century. The book concludes with a brief interview with Leckie herself touching on each of the topics examined during the preceding chapters. David M. Higgins is a Senior Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and he is the Chair of the English Department at Inver Hills College in Minnesota, where he teaches classes on science fiction, graphic novels, American literature, and composition. He is the author of Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood, which won the 2021 Science Fiction Research Association Book Award.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Palgrave pivot.
Palgrave science fiction and fantasy.
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Intro
Series Preface
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: Introduction
Some Nobody Cook's Daughter
Ancillary Justice: An Overview
Who Is Ann Leckie?
Critical Perspectives
The Problem of Empire
References
Chapter 2: "She Was Probably Male": Gender and Coloniality
Gender, Sex, and Pronouns
An Agender Perspective
The Universal She?
Pronouns and Coloniality
References
Chapter 3: "Luxury Always Comes at Someone Else's Expense": Empire, Economics, and Addiction
Imperial Allegories
Buffer Zones and Homeland Security

Garsedd: The Radchaai Vietnam
Economic Addiction and Imperial Expansion
Permanent Unevenness
Imperialism and Addiction
References
Chapter 4: "You Are If I Say You Are": Race, Citizenship, and Imperial Personhood
Race and Empire
Dinner Table Racism
Cultural Racism
Not Quite Human Enough
Citizenship and Personhood
Imperial Sovereignty
The Politics of Recognition
References
Chapter 5: "Save It for When It'll Make a Difference": Cynical Reason and Revolutionary Agency
Cynical Reason
Revolutionary Snap
Currents of Agency
Cascades of Affect

Everything Makes a Difference
Tipping Points and Dynamic Tensions
Reactionary Snap
Love and Truth
References
Chapter 6: "Doing Something Is Always Better than Doing Nothing": A Short Interview with Ann Leckie
Index

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