Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-victimhood (New American Canon) free ebook download.

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Author(s):	David M. Higgins

Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1609387848
Pages:	250	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Reverse colonization narratives are stories like H. G. Wellss War of the Worlds, in which technologically superior Martians invade and colonize England. They ask Western audiences to imagine what its like to be the colonized rather than the colonizers. David Higgins argues that although some reverse colonization stories are thoughtful and provocative, reverse colonization fantasy has also led to the prevalence of a very dangerous kind of science fictional thinking in our current political culture. It has become popular among groups such as anti-feminists, white supremacists, and far-right reactionaries to appropriate a sense of righteous, anti-imperial victimhoodthe sense that white men, in particular, are somehow colonized victims fighting an insurgent resistance against an oppressive establishment. Nothing could be timelier, as an armed far-right mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an effort to stop the presidential election from being stolen from them.

Higgins shows that this reverse colonization stance depends upon a science fictional logic that achieved dominance within imperial fantasy during the 1960s and has continued to gain momentum ever since. By identifying with fantastic forms of victimhood, subjects who already enjoy social hegemony are able to justify economic inequality, expansions of police and military power, climatological devastation, new articulations of racism, and countless other forms of violenceall purportedly in the name of security, self-defense, and self-protection.
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