Imagining Alternative Worlds: Far-Right Fiction and the Power of Cultural Imaginaries [Hardcover]

Imagining Alternative Worlds?explores how the far right employs fictionality as a powerful political tool in the?21st?century.

1. Introduction: Literature, Movie Reviews, and the Cultural Imaginaries of the Far Right  2. Worlds Apart: Safe Spaces, Non-Places, and Beyond  3. Right on Time: Temporality, History, and Change  4. Skin in the Game: Racism Suffered and Imposed  5. Significant Others: Women, Sex, and Gender  6. Manning Up: Heroic Agency and Political Utopia  7. Concluding Remarks: Cultural Imaginaries and Far-right Subjectivities  Appendix 1: Far-Right Fiction  Appendix 2: Far-Right Movie Reviews

Christoffer K?lvraa is Associate Professor at the School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark. His research focuses on right-wing discourses and voices in Europe and the US, especially their affective performativity through provocation and playfulness.

Bernhard Forchtner is Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Media and Communication, University of Leicester, United Kingdom. His research focuses on European far-right parties and movements, especially their narrative self-construction and their discourses about environmental issues.

Few monographs map out virtually unexplored terrain; fewer still do it with the thoroughness and panache of Imagining Alternative Worlds. K?lvraa and Forchtners study of the far-rights often-violent cultural imaginaries in film reviews and, in particular, prose fiction, is essential reading for all those interested in how right-wing extremists can attract followers  beyond stale political rallies, turgid tracts and superficial memes - through what one far-right writer called the psychic impact of luslƒP