Ann Leckies Ancillary Justice : A Critical Companion [Hardcover]

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.   

1.Introduction.- 2.She Was Probably Male Gender and Embodiment.- 3. Luxury Always Comes at Someone Elses Expense The Economics of Empire.- 4.You Have to be Human to be Radchaai Race, Citizenship, and Imperial Personhood.- 5.Save it for When it will Make a Difference Cynical Reason, Agency, and the Politics of Revolution.- 6.Conclusion: Mercy, or the Sword?

I am a huge fan of Leckies IMPERIAL RADCH trilogy and I found Higginss Companion an excellent read & for its parallel introduction to critical postcolonial questions about the workings of empire in the twenty-first century. (Veronica Hollinger, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 50, 2023)

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