{"product_id":"speculation-paperback-1","title":"Speculation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEd Pavlic\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eIvelisse Rodriguez\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow can the speculative imagination help us build a better world?\u003cbr\u003e At a world-historical moment of global upheaval, speculative writing is enjoying a renaissance. This collection of poetry, stories, and essays engages speculation as both a ubiquitous feature of financial capitalism and a radical tool of collective imagination. By rejecting dominant ideas about what is possible, speculation empowers us to plot new paths to a more just world.\u003cbr\u003e Creative works range over violence and healing, memory and erasure, and alternative worlds, while essays span the meaning of land and community in the African diaspora, Octavia Butler's speculative fiction, and the ethics of the far future. Taken together, these works suggest that speculation is ultimately about our relationships with each other--as one contributor puts it, \"what they have been, what they are, and most important, what they could be.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEd Pavlic is the author of \u003ci\u003eLive at the Bitter End\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWho Can Afford to Improvise? James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listener\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLet's Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno\u003c\/i\u003e; and other books. He is Distinguished Research Professor in the English Department and in the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Georgia and a Boston Review Arts Contributing Editor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIvelisse Rodriguez's short story collection, \u003ci\u003eLove War Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, was a 2019 PEN\/Faulkner finalist and a 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES finalist. She is founder and editor of an interview series published in \u003ci\u003eCentro Voices\u003c\/i\u003e, the e-magazine of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. She is a Boston Review Arts Contributing Editor.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53503059165491,"sku":"9781946511768","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/brGWQ11QYN9781946511768.webp?v=1781656404","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/speculation-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}