Shifting Understandings of Imperialism: A Collision of Cultures in Starship Troopers and Ender's Game

Shifting Understandings of Imperialism: A Collision of Cultures in Starship Troopers and Ender's Game

In this paper, I consider how Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers (1959) and Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game (1985) allegorically treat U.S. Cold War fears of invasion by the Soviet Union. Given the texts' historical relationship to the Vietnam War and their use of very similar...

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Main Author: Perniciaro, Leon
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks@UNO 2011
Subjects:
Militarism in science fiction
the Vietnam War
cultural studies
Starship Troopers
Ender's Game
representations of the Cold War in science fiction
Online Access:http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1338
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