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Broderick |
Interested in Megatext. Thinks SF shows human history |
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Darko Suvin |
Believes point of sf is: to reflect on society reflect on ourselves . Taking an everyday thing and amplifying it to show its probe. Interested in way to free the oppressed. Also Cognitive estrangement |
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Cognitive Estrangement |
makes familiar weird |
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Megatext |
Themes, stereotypes, tropes Exampled include: Amazonian Babes, Aggressive warriors,cowardly peaceful types, Bomb with timer that stops at 1. |
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Structural Fabulation |
Fiction that offers world different than the one we know but returns to a similar confront |
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cultural relativism |
the ideas that you hold true to be true in your culture are not held universally and are only true to your culture |
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ethnocentrism |
idea that your culture makes the best things, and other countries' things is primitive (Europe/Colonialism) |
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benedict |
Tried to get away from ethnocentrism. Compared and contrasted cultures on how they were similar and different. Believes in cultural relativism (obviously). Spoke about how each culture had a specific "personality". IE: Persians are loud, New Jersey Italians are a bunch a guidos |
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Sapir |
Big on Language. Language is not separable from experience but also interpenetrates with it.Language may be roughly define as patterns of reference and expression |
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Boaz |
Tried to compare culture and race. Warned us not to make value judgements |
