Speculative Fiction: A Keyword in Critical Theory
摘要: “推想小说”这一术语首次出现于 1889 年。该术语在 20 世纪主要被视为科幻小说的替代或差异性称谓,在 21 世纪则衍变为一个可涵盖科幻、奇幻、恐怖、乌托邦文学等多种虚构叙事形式的新型文类概念。当代推想小说以跨文类等超越边界的方式来探索历史、现在和未来人类世界的另类可能性,从思想观念与表征形式上摆脱了坎贝尔式科幻小说模式的桎梏。21 世纪的推想小说既是超越文类边界与物质边界的思想实验性叙事类型,也是女性、少数族裔以及第三世界国家的作家们发声的文化政治场域,赋予了他们超越西方科幻传统的另类幻想文学的表征空间,是一种具备实验性、开放性与前瞻性的重要文类。
Abstract: The term “speculative fiction” first appeared in 1889. In the twentieth century, the term was primarily used as an alternative or differential term for science fiction, but in the twenty-first century, it has evolved into a broad literary genre that encompasses a variety of fictional narrative forms, including science fiction, fantasy, horror and utopian literature. Contemporary speculative fiction explores alternative possibilities for the historical, the present and the future human worlds in a transgressive manner, freeing itself from the ideological and expressional shackle of the Campbellian science fiction narrative mode. Speculative fiction of the twenty-first century is both a form of thought-experimental narrative that transcends the boundaries of genre and materiality, and a field of cultural politics for female, ethnic minority and third-world-country writers, giving them a space for creating alternative fantasy representations beyond the tradition of Western science fiction. Speculative fiction today is an important genre that is experimental, open and forward-looking.
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