Latin American science fiction
Subtitle: theory and practice
By: edited by M. Elizabeth Ginway and J. Andrew Brown
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781137281227
Subjects: Latin American Science fiction; History and criticism; Latin American fiction; Literature and society; History
Description: "Combining work by critics from Latin America, the US and Europe, Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice is the first anthology of articles in English to examine science fiction in all of Latin America, from Mexico and the Caribbean to Brazil and the Southern Cone. Using a variety of sophisticated theoretical approaches, the book explores not merely the development of a science fiction tradition in the region, but more importantly, the intricate ways in which this tradition has engaged with the most important cultural and literary debates of recent years"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. Speculating a canon : Latin America's SF traditions. Islands in the slipstream : diasporic allegories in Cuban science fiction since the special period / Emily A. Maguire ; Time travel and history in Carmen Boullosa's 1991 Llanto, novelas imposibles / Claire Taylor ; Joáo Guimaráes Rosa's "A young man, gleaming, white" and the protocol of the question / Braulio Tavares ; Bolaño and science fiction : deformities / Álvaro Bisama; title: pt. II. On the periphery of the periphery : cyberpunk and zombies in Latin America. Sexilia and the perverse world of the future : an Argentine version of Barbarella and Sade / Fernando Reati ; Ending the world with words : Bernardo Fernández (BEF) and the institutionalization of science fiction in Mexico / Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado ; Teenage zombie wasteland : suburbia after the apocalypse in Mike Wilson's Zombie and Edmundo Paz Soldán's Los vivos y los muertos / David Laraway; title: pt. III. Comics and film : Latin American SF across genres. Oesterheld's iconic and ironic Eternautas / Rachel Haywood Ferreira ; Brazilian science fiction and the visual arts : from political cartoons to contemporary comics / Octavio Aragáo ; Science fiction and metafiction in the cinematic works of Brazilian director Jorge Furtado / M. Elizabeth Ginway and Alfredo Suppia.