Latin American Science Fiction Writers

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313061556
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Latin American Science Fiction Writers by : Darrell B. Lockhart

Download or read book Latin American Science Fiction Writers written by Darrell B. Lockhart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many readers are unaware of the vast universe of Latin American science fiction, which has its roots in the 18th century and has flourished to the present day. Because science fiction is part of Latin American popular culture, it reflects cultural and social concerns and comments on contemporary society. While there is a growing body of criticism on Latin American science fiction, most studies treat only a single author or work. This reference offers a broad overview of Latin American science fiction. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 70 Latin American science fiction writers. While some of these are canonical figures, others have been largely neglected. Since much of science fiction has been written by women, many women writers are profiled. Each entry is prepared by an expert contributor and includes a short biography, a discussion of the writer's works, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with a general bibliography of anthologies and criticism.

The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction

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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819570834
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction by : Rachel Haywood Ferreira

Download or read book The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction written by Rachel Haywood Ferreira and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantastic voyage through the early science fiction of Latin America Early science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior to 1920, Rachel Haywood Ferreira argues that science fiction has always been a global genre. She traces how and why the genre quickly reached Latin America and analyzes how writers in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico adapted science fiction to reflect their own realities. Among the texts discussed are one of the first defenses of Darwinism in Latin America, a tale of a time-traveling history book, and a Latin American Frankenstein. Latin American science fiction writers have long been active participants in the sf literary tradition, expanding the limits of the genre and deepening our perception of the role of science and technology in the Latin American imagination. The book includes a chronological bibliography of science fiction published from 1775 to 1920 in all Latin American countries.

Cosmos Latinos

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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819566348
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (663 download)

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Book Synopsis Cosmos Latinos by : Andrea L. Bell

Download or read book Cosmos Latinos written by Andrea L. Bell and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever collection of Latin American science fiction in English.

Latin American Science Fiction

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137312777
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Book Synopsis Latin American Science Fiction by : M. Ginway

Download or read book Latin American Science Fiction written by M. Ginway and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining work by critics from Latin America, the USA, 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 year.

Super Extra Grande

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1632060566
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Super Extra Grande by : Yoss

Download or read book Super Extra Grande written by Yoss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With playfulness and ingenuity in the tradition of Douglas Adams, the Cuban science fiction master Yoss delivers a space opera of intergalactic proportions withSuper Extra Grande, the winner of the 20th annual UPC Science Fiction Award in 2011.

Three Messages and a Warning

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Publisher : Small Beer Press
ISBN 13 : 1931520372
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis Three Messages and a Warning by : Eduardo Mayo

Download or read book Three Messages and a Warning written by Eduardo Mayo and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical combination of emerging and established Mexican authors of original tales of the fantastic.

Latinx Rising

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Publisher : Mad Creek Books
ISBN 13 : 9780814255896
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (558 download)

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Book Synopsis Latinx Rising by : Matthew David Goodwin

Download or read book Latinx Rising written by Matthew David Goodwin and published by Mad Creek Books. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Latin@ Rising is the first-ever anthology of Latino/Latina speculative literature -- science fiction and fantasy stories, poetry, artwork and drama."--

Latin American Textualities

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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816537712
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Latin American Textualities by : Heather J. Allen

Download or read book Latin American Textualities written by Heather J. Allen and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textuality is the condition in which a text is created, edited, archived, published, disseminated, and consumed. “Texts,” therefore, encompass a broad variety of artifacts: traditional printed matter such as grammar books and newspaper articles; phonographs; graphic novels; ephemera such as fashion illustrations, catalogs, and postcards; and even virtual databases and cataloging systems.\ Latin American Textualities is a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at textual history, textual artifacts, and digital textualities across Latin America from the colonial era to the present. Editors Heather J. Allen and Andrew R. Reynolds gather a wide range of scholars to investigate the region’s textual scholarship. Contributors offer engaging examples of not just artifacts but also the contexts in which the texts are used. Topics include Guamán Poma’s library, the effect of sound recordings on writing in Argentina, Sudamericana Publishing House’s contribution to the Latin American literary boom, and Argentine science fiction. Latin American Textualities provides new paths to reading Latin American history, culture, and literatures. Contributors: Heather J. Allen Catalina Andrango-Walker Sam Carter Sara Castro-Klarén Edward King Rebecca Kosick Silvia Kurlat Ares Walther Maradiegue Clayton McCarl José Enrique Navarro Andrew R. Reynolds George Antony Thomas Zac Zimmer

Peter Lang Companion to Latin American Science Fiction

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Publisher : Peter Lang Us
ISBN 13 : 9781433152177
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (521 download)

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Book Synopsis Peter Lang Companion to Latin American Science Fiction by : Silvia G. Kurlat Ares

Download or read book Peter Lang Companion to Latin American Science Fiction written by Silvia G. Kurlat Ares and published by Peter Lang Us. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Science Fiction, Latin America, Feminism, Science Fiction Comics, Science Fiction Film, Genre, Fantastic, Science Fiction Magazines, History of Science Fiction, Canon, Monsters and aliens, Video Games"--

A Planet for Rent

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Publisher : Restless Books
ISBN 13 : 1632060086
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis A Planet for Rent by : Yoss

Download or read book A Planet for Rent written by Yoss and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most successful and controversial Cuban Science Fiction writer of all time, Yoss (aka José Miguel Sánchez Gómez) is known for his acerbic portraits of the island under Communism. In his bestselling A Planet for Rent, Yoss pays homage to Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and 334 by Thomas M. Disch. A critique of Cuba in the nineties, after the fall of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, A Planet for Rent marks the debut in English of an astonishingly brave and imaginative Latin American voice. Praise for Yoss “One of the most prestigious science fiction authors of the island.” —On Cuba Magazine "A gifted and daring writer." —David Iaconangelo "José Miguel Sánchez [Yoss] is Cuba’s most decorated science fiction author, who has cultivated the most prestige for this genre in the mainstream, and the only person of all the Island’s residents who lives by his pen.” —Cuenta Regresiva Born José Miguel Sánchez Gómez, Yoss assumed his pen name in 1988, when he won the Premio David Award in the science fiction category for Timshel. Together with his peculiar pseudonym, the author's aesthetic of an impentinent rocker has allowed him to stand out amongst his fellow Cuban writers. Earning a degree in Biology in 1991, he went on to graduate from the first ever course on Narrative Techniques at the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Center of Literary Training, in the year 1999. Today, Yoss writes both realistic and science fiction works. Alongside these novels, the author produces essays, Praise for, and compilations, and actively promotes the Cuban science fiction literary workshops, Espiral and Espacio Abierto. When he isn’t translating, David Frye teaches Latin American culture and society at the University of Michigan. Translations include First New Chronicle and Good Government by Guaman Poma de Ayala (Peru, 1615); The Mangy Parrot by José Joaquín Fernandez de Lizardi (Mexico, 1816), for which he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; Writing across Cultures: Narrative Transculturation in Latin America by Ángel Rama (Uruguay, 1982), and several Cuban and Spanish novels and poems.

Beyond Bolaño

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538669
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis Beyond Bolaño by : Héctor Hoyos

Download or read book Beyond Bolaño written by Héctor Hoyos and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era. Calling attention to fresh innovations in form, voice, perspective, and representation, he also affirms the lead role of Latin American authors in reshaping world literature. Focusing on post-1989 Latin American novels and their representation of globalization, Hoyos considers the narrative techniques and aesthetic choices Latin American authors make to assimilate the conflicting forces at work in our increasingly interconnected world. Challenging the assumption that globalization leads to cultural homogenization, he identifies the rich textual strategies that estrange and re-mediate power relations both within literary canons and across global cultural hegemonies. Hoyos shines a light on the unique, avant-garde phenomena that animate these works, such as modeling literary circuits after the dynamics of the art world, imagining counterfactual "Nazi" histories, exposing the limits of escapist narratives, and formulating textual forms that resist worldwide literary consumerism. These experiments help reconfigure received ideas about global culture and advance new, creative articulations of world consciousness.

Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art

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Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 178735976X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Book Synopsis Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art by : Joanna Page

Download or read book Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art written by Joanna Page and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Projects that bring the ‘hard’ sciences into art are increasingly being exhibited in galleries and museums across the world. In a surge of publications on the subject, few focus on regions beyond Europe and the Anglophone world. Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art assembles a new corpus of art-science projects by Latin American artists, ranging from big-budget collaborations with NASA and MIT to homegrown experiments in artists’ kitchens. While they draw on recent scientific research, these art projects also ‘decolonize’ science. If increasing knowledge of the natural world has often gone hand-in-hand with our objectification and exploitation of it, the artists studied here emphasize the subjectivity and intelligence of other species, staging new forms of collaboration and co-creativity beyond the human. They design technologies that work with organic processes to promote the health of ecosystems, and seek alternatives to the logics of extractivism and monoculture farming that have caused extensive ecological damage in Latin America. They develop do-it-yourself, open-source, commons-based practices for sharing creative and intellectual property. They establish critical dialogues between Western science and indigenous thought, reconnecting a disembedded, abstracted form of knowledge with the cultural, social, spiritual, and ethical spheres of experience from which it has often been excluded. Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art interrogates how artistic practices may communicate, extend, supplement, and challenge scientific ideas. At the same time, it explores broader questions in the field of art, including the relationship between knowledge, care, and curation; nonhuman agency; art and utility; and changing approaches to participation. It also highlights important contributions by Latin American thinkers to themes of global significance, including the Anthropocene, climate change and environmental justice.

The Spirit of Science Fiction

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1529924529
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis The Spirit of Science Fiction by : Roberto Bolaño

Download or read book The Spirit of Science Fiction written by Roberto Bolaño and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world. But as close as these friends are, the city tugs them in opposite directions. Jan withdraws from the world, shutting himself in their shared rooftop apartment where he feverishly composes fan letters to the stars of science fiction. Meanwhile, Remo runs head-first into the future, spending his days and nights with a circle of wild young writers, seeking pleasure in the city’s labyrinthine streets, rundown cafes, and murky bathhouses. TRANSLATED BY NATASHA WIMMER ‘Fascinating... Achingly beautiful... It reads like a dispatch from beyond the grave’ New Yorker ‘The Spirit of Science Fiction functions as a kind of key to the jewelled box of Bolaño’s fictions... A cocktail of sorrow and ecstasy’ Paris Review

Beyond the Border

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ISBN 13 : 9780813017853
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (178 download)

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Book Synopsis Beyond the Border by : Nora Erro-Peralta

Download or read book Beyond the Border written by Nora Erro-Peralta and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 15 short stories by female, Latin American writers, including Isabel Allende and Luisa Valenzuela. Ranging across boundaries of geography and gender, the work covers such topics as incest, race, politics, sexual needs, love, old age, and child abuse.

Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction

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ISBN 13 : 9780813045481
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (454 download)

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Book Synopsis Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction by : Laura Barbas-Rhoden

Download or read book Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction written by Laura Barbas-Rhoden and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Year 200

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Publisher : Restless Books
ISBN 13 : 1632060175
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis The Year 200 by : Agustín de Rojas

Download or read book The Year 200 written by Agustín de Rojas and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult classic from the godfather of Cuban science fiction, Agustín de Rojas’s The Year 200 is both a visionary sci-fi masterwork and a bold political parable about the perils of state power. Centuries have passed since the Communist Federation defeated the capitalist Empire, but humanity is still divided. A vast artificial-intelligence network, a psychiatric bureaucracy, and a tiny egalitarian council oversee civil affairs and quash “abnormal” attitudes such as romantic love. Disillusioned civilians renounce the new society and either forego technology to live as “primitives” or enhance their brains with cybernetic implants to become “cybos.” When the Empire returns and takes over the minds of unsuspecting citizens in a scenario that terrifyingly recalls Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the world’s fate falls into the hands of two brave women. Originally published in 1990, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall and before the onset of Cuba's devastating Special Period, Agustín de Rojas’s magnum opus brings contemporary trajectories to their logical extremes and boldly asks, “What does ‘the greatest good for the greatest number’ really mean?”

Trafalgar

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Publisher : Small Beer Press
ISBN 13 : 1618730320
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (187 download)

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Book Synopsis Trafalgar by : Angélica Gorodischer

Download or read book Trafalgar written by Angélica Gorodischer and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Trafalgar's in town his friends know that even though the coffee might be terrible, the stories will be great.