TY - BOOK ID - 147692503 TI - Imagining alternative worlds: far-right fiction and the power of cultural imaginaries AU - Kølvraa, Christoffer AU - Forchtner, Bernhard PY - 2025 SN - 9781032250618 9781032254722 PB - London Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Literature in propaganda. KW - Politics and literature. KW - Fiction KW - Fictions, Theory of. KW - Right-wing extremists. KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:147692503 AB - "Imagining Alternative Worlds explores how the far right employs fictionality as a powerful political tool in the 21st century. It does so by examining the far-right's own cultural commentary through a large collection of its novels, novellas, short stories, and film reviews, illustrating how the 'alternative worlds' articulated in such cultural products convey its ideology. More specifically, the book identifies and analyses four distinct far-right 'cultural imaginaries' - a 'primordial', a 'nostalgic', a 'promethean' and a 'nihilist' one - that each subtly convey different yet linked ideas about space, time, 'race', love and heroic identity. By thereby drawing attention to the 'cultural heterogeneity' of the contemporary far right, Imagining Alternative Worlds offers key insights into the dreams, identities and norms such actors hope will define our future. The book will be of interest to researchers of the far right, of literary, media and communication studies, and of social and cultural history"-- ER -