SPECULATIVE IMPERIALISMS

Speculative Imperialisms Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times explores the settler colonial ideologies underpinning the monstrous imaginings of contemporary popular culture in the Britain and the US Through a close examination of District 9 Avatar Doctor Who Planet of the Apes and steampunk culture Susana Loza illuminates the durability of settler colonialism and how it operates through two linked yet distinct forms of racial mimicry monsterization and minstrelsy Speculative Imperialisms contemplates the fundamental albeit changing role that such racial simulations play in a putatively postracial and postcolonial era It brings together the work on gender masquerade racial minstrelsy and postcolonial mimicry and puts it in dialogue with film media and cultural studies This project draws upon the theoretical insights of Stuart Hall Homi K Bhabha Edward Said Philip Deloria Michael Rogin Eric Lott Charles Mills Falguni Sheth Lorenzo Veracini Adilifu Nama Isiah Lavender III Gwendolyn Foster Marianna Torgovnick Ann Laura Stoler Anne McClintock Eric Greene Richard Dyer and Ed Guerrero