Weird Council: an International Conference on the Writing of China Miéville - Plenary Discussion
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- Speaker(s):
- Chair: Roger Luckhurst; Speakers: Caroline Bassett, Sherryl Vint, John Rieder, Joe Sutliff Sanders
- Event date:
- Friday 14 September 2012
Institute of English Studies
- Description
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We are pleased to announce the first academic conference dedicated to the work of China Miéville. The winner of multiple awards, Miéville has developed a distinguished body of fictional work since the publication of his first novel, King Rat, in 1999. Having published nine novels (with his next forthcoming in May 2012) as well as a collection of short stories, Miéville is also a respected literary critic, political activist and legal scholar. His post-Suvinian working through of the "Fantastic" as a generic category encompassing science fiction, fantasy and the Gothic, as well as avant-garde traditions such as Surrealism, has been influential in cutting across received boundaries of genre. Miéville has recently been credited as "leading revolutions in fantasy as both a writer and a critic" (in a 2009 special edition of SF journal Extrapolation dedicated to his work). His fiction spans a wide variety of themes, contexts and genre-blurring literary traditions, which metaphorically explores, among other things, the implications of lived cultural, racial and geographical boundaries, collective struggle, and bodily affect.
In addition, Miéville's monograph Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law was published in 2005 and he has written and edited critical articles for a variety of journals; from Historical Materialism and the philosophical journal Collapse, to the Harvard International Law Journal.
Other videos from the conference:
Weird Council: an International Conference on the Writing of China Miéville - Keynote
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