Open AccessON XENOPHOBIA IN SCIENCE FICTION
Author(s) -
Sergei Kuzeev
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
juvenis scientia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2414-3790
pISSN - 2414-3782
DOI - 10.32415/jscientia.2019.01.12
Subject(s) - xenophobia , alienation , appropriation , narrative , sociology , phenomenon , aesthetics , media studies , epistemology , literature , art , philosophy , racism , political science , gender studies , law
The article deals with how the notion of xenophobia is re-iterated in contemporary science fiction. First, the author provides a brief analysis of xenophobia as a cognitive phenomenon that is, on the one hand, built into the mass culture as an archetypal attitude and, on the other hand, symbolically disguised following the two prototypic scenarios-those of alienation and of appropriation. One of the central arguments of the article is that the quintessential sci-fi “alien” is based on the reinvented image of a Jew in the Western culture, while the narrative of “androids” draws on the historical and emotional experience of black slavery.