Research project
The Transcultural Fantastic
- Start date: 1 September 2018
- End date: 1 September 2019
- Funder: LAHRI
- Primary investigator: Professor Ingo Cornils
- Co-investigators: Dr Sarah Dodd, Dr Liz Stainforth
Value
£2,000
Description
Funded by the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute (University of Leeds)
Speculative fictions and explorations of the Fantastic provide a critical lens for studying the possibilities and limitations of the present. Such explorations are influential in political, philosophical, and cultural discourses, through a range of media (literature, cinema, television, theatre, art and design). However, the discourse on the Fantastic is often exclusively Anglophone and metropolitan.
We argue that in a world where space and place are increasingly perceived in terms of the global and the local, a broader understanding of the Transcultural Fantastic is more important than ever.
Project website
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/leeds-arts-humanities-research-institute/doc/transcultural-fantastic