Peter Lang Companion to Latin American Science Fiction

The __Peter Lang Companion to Latin American Science Fiction__ provides a comprehensive overview of science fiction in Latin America by addressing the history and criticism of the genre in the region. It not only maps the cornerstones of the field (books, comics, magazines, movies) but also studies the specific political, social and cultural concerns that gave rise to its distinctive patterns and ideas. This volume organizes and systematizes the state of the field. In this sense, the aim of the __Companion__ is to analyze Latin American science fiction hand in hand with the literature and culture produced in the rest of the region, providing a proper context for its historic, cultural and political themes. Taking into account the complexity of contemporary debates in the field, the editors have made a point of inviting contributors from a wide variety of countries to provide the most diverse possible set of perspectives on the development of science fiction in Latin America. The volume serves the needs of readers interested in science fiction at large, either in its original language or in translation; students trying to understand the genre; and teachers seeking to address the main issues in the development of the genre in the region by including current approaches to the material. The __Companion__ is an indispensable teaching and learning tool, as well as reference book for critics and interested readers. Cover 1 Table of Contents 9 Prologue (Silvia G. Kurlat Ares and Ezequiel De Rosso) 13 Part I Identifying Latin American Science Fiction: Limits, Frontiers, Battlefields 17 CHAPTER 1 Science Fiction in Latin America: Reading a Hidden Landscape (Silvia G. Kurlat Ares) 19 CHAPTER 2 Nervo’s Continuum and the Weariness of Reason: A Hypothesis on the Form of Latin American Science Fiction (Ezequiel De Rosso) 35 CHAPTER 3 Consonance and Subversion: Literary Canon and Popular Narratives (Luis C. Cano) 49 CHAPTER 4 Science Fiction vs Magical Realism: Oppositional Aesthetics and Contradictory Discourses in Sergio Arau’s A Day Without a Mexican (David S. Dalton) 59 CHAPTER 5 The Hispanic Caribbean as a Three-Winged Bird: Science Fiction Production as Transculturation (Juan C. Toledano Redondo) 71 Part II The Science Fiction Field and Its Formative Forces 83 CHAPTER 6 Science Fiction Magazines in Latin America: The Tension between Readability and Innovation (Rodrigo Bastidas Pérez) 85 CHAPTER 7 An Overview of the Latin American Science Fiction Market (Carlos Abraham) 97 CHAPTER 8 Great Expectations? Latin American Science Fiction and Canon (Con)figurations (Pablo Brescia) 107 CHAPTER 9 That’s the Attitude: Magazines, Communities and Counterculture in Uruguay and Latin America (1989–2013) (Ramiro Sanchiz) 121 Part III A Chronology of Latin American Science Fiction 133 CHAPTER 10 Uses of Utopia in the Disputes of the Lettered City (1770–1850) (Ariela Schnirmajer) 135 CHAPTER 11 An Unnatural Selection: Science, Progress and Fiction (1850–1930) (Juan Pisano) 147 CHAPTER 12 The Dissemination of a Literary Genre (1940–1959) (Miguel Ángel Fernández Delgado) 161 CHAPTER 13 Made at Home: On Some of the Forms and Uses of the Science Fiction Genre (1960–1990) (Maielis González Fernández,Translated by Adrian Replanski) 173 CHAPTER 14 From Technological Realism to the Science-Fictional Turn in Latin American Literature (1985–2017) (Emily A. Maguire) 185 Part IV Critical Approaches 199 Thrilling Politics 201 CHAPTER 15 The Political Dimension of Latin American Science Fiction (Iván Rodrigo Mendizábal) 203 CHAPTER 16 Political Corpses: Zombies in Recent Argentine Narrative (Sandra Gasparini) 217 CHAPTER 17 Fictional Universes in Science Fiction: The Latin American Case (Alejo Steimberg) 231 Dangerous and Weird Beings 243 CHAPTER 18 Agency and Opening of Female Bodies in the First Stories of Aldunate, Gorodischer and Chaviano (Macarena Cortés) 245 CHAPTER 19 Women Science Fiction Writers in Latin America: Bioethics and Biopolitics in Laura Ponce and Alicia Fenieux (Teresa López-Pellisa) 253 CHAPTER 20 Aliens, Mutants, Cyborgs, Digital Selves: Avatars of the Posthuman in Latin American Science Fiction (Antonio Córdoba) 265 Amazing Science 277 CHAPTER 21 Steampunk Science Fiction: Brazilian Appropriations (Éverly Pegoraro) 279 CHAPTER 22 An Ecology of the Death of the Species: The Mourning Play as a Narrative Form (Giovanna Rivero) 289 CHAPTER 23 Technology in Latin American Science Fiction: Allegories of Consumption and Conspiracy (Joanna Page) 301 Part V Visual Languages: Eyes, Ears, Joysticks 313 CHAPTER 24 The Eternal Dream of a Minor Cinema: Latin American Dalliances with Science Fiction (Marcos Adrián Pérez Llahí and Silvia Angiola) 315 CHAPTER 25 Experimentation, Utopia and Dystopia in Cinema (1969–1999) (Raúl Aguiar) 327 CHAPTER 26 Invasions, Adventures and Space Travel in the Visual Language of Comics (Elton Honores) 339 CHAPTER 27 On the Trail of the Murderous State: On Latin American Alternate History (Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste) 351 CHAPTER 28 Looking Forward to Our Past: A Retrospective on Science Fiction Video Games (Lyz Reblin-Renshaw) 363 Notes on Contributors 373 Index 381

The Peter Lang Companion to Latin American Science Fiction provides a comprehensive overview of science fiction in Latin America by addressing the history and criticism of the genre in the region. It not only maps the cornerstones of the field (books, comics, magazines, movies) but also studies the specific political, social and cultural concerns that gave rise to its distinctive patterns and ideas. This volume organizes and systematizes the state of the field. In this sense, the aim of the Companion is to analyze Latin American science fiction hand in hand with the literature and culture produced in the rest of the region, providing a proper context for its historic, cultural and political themes. Taking into account the complexity of contemporary debates in the field, the editors have made a point of inviting contributors from a wide variety of countries to provide the most diverse possible set of perspectives on the development of science fiction in Latin America.

The volume serves the needs of readers interested in science fiction at large, either in its original language or in translation; students trying to understand the genre; and teachers seeking to address the main issues in the development of the genre in the region by including current approaches to the material. The Companion is an indispensable teaching and learning tool, as well as reference book for critics and interested readers.

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