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Living in space(s) without a future: depictions of mental illness in Aniara
Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper.
2024 (Engelska)Ingår i: Nordic speculative fiction: research, theory, and practise / [ed] Jyrki Korpua; Aino-Kaisa Koistinen; Hanna-Riikka Roine; Marta Mboka Tveit, New York: Routledge, 2024, s. 224-240Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Refereegranskat)
Abstract [en]

How would humanity cope without planet Earth? What are the consequences when people are unwillingly forced to spend their life in outer space? These are two central questions posed by the Swedish science fiction film Aniara (Kågerman & Lilja 2018). The film narrates the experience of the crew and passengers aboard the spaceship Aniara after it is knocked off course on its journey to Mars. Aniara travels further and further into deep space while a growing sense of despair fills the ship. Unable to turn the ship around, the crew and passengers increasingly experience mental illness, which is expressed in terms of anxiety, depression, and suicide. This chapter analyses the film's depictions of mental illness and how these depictions are related to space and time, another central theme of the film. The analysis establishes how the temporality of space is intrinsically connected to the mental states of the characters, specifically, how neither Aniara nor planet Earth can provide a future for humanity. By exploring this connection between space-time and mental illness, it is argued that the film avoids Othering mental illness and, instead, depicts distress, despair, and mental illness as aspects intrinsic to what it is to be human.

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New York: Routledge, 2024. s. 224-240
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Studies in Global Genre Fiction
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Aniara, Othering, mental illness, time and space, future
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Filmvetenskap
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medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-233091DOI: 10.4324/9781003561101Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85212034669ISBN: 9781003561101 (digital)ISBN: 9781032602363 (tryckt)ISBN: 9781032910475 (tryckt)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-233091DiVA, id: diva2:1922855
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MAW 2019.0003, “Ageing with disabilities in past, present and future societies: Risks and loads from disabilities and later life outcomes"
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Stiftelsen Marcus och Amalia Wallenbergs minnesfond, MAW 2019.0003Tillgänglig från: 2024-12-19 Skapad: 2024-12-19 Senast uppdaterad: 2025-01-02Bibliografiskt granskad

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