Cultural Identity Literature

1. 1.Why Read Science Fiction Through a Cultural Lens? Method & Scope
2. 2.The American Tradition I: The Frontier Myth & Golden Age Optimism
3. 3.The American Tradition II: Cold War Anxiety to Cyberpunk's Corporate Dystopia
4. 4.The British Tradition I: Wells's Social Critique & the New Wave's Interiority
5. 5.The British Tradition II: Dystopia, Irony & the Long Shadow of Empire's Decline
6. 6.The Soviet & Russian Tradition: Writing Political Critique Under Censorship
7. 7.Japanese Science Fiction Literature: Nuclear Trauma & Technological Ambivalence
8. 8.Beyond the Anglo-Soviet-Japanese Axis: Afrofuturism & the Genre's Newer Centers
9. 9.Reading Protagonists as Cultural Artifacts: A Comparative Framework
10. 10.Capstone: A Close Comparative Reading of Two Real Texts