Titlebook: Latin American Science Fiction; Theory and Practice M. Elizabeth Ginway,J. Andrew Brown Book 2012 M. Elizabeth Ginway and J. Andrew Brown 2

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Time Travel and History in Carmen Boullosa’s 1991 sen to give to this chapter is deliberately ambiguous; we may choose to insert a hyphen, making the discussion about time-travel, or, on the other hand, we may insert a comma, making the discussion about the epistemological categories of time, travel, and history. This deliberate ambiguity is precis

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and the Perverse World of the Future: An Argentine Version of Barbarella and Sadees its way toward “SlaveRevelry 94,” a yearly fair where those who can afford them exultantly snatch up the choicest sex slaves. Sixteen half-naked porters shoulder the litter, whipped onward by another slave, as schoolchildren and passersby look on in amusement. The whip strikes the genitals of the

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Ending the World with Words: Bernardo Fernández (BEF) and the Institutionalization of Science Fictioine the fall to believe his challenge is entirely justified” (68). Apocalyse, thus, consists of imagining the end of a particular social order, in which the hopeless challenge of the hero may become a critical stance against the order of the patriarchs. Yet we must not forget that the end of the wor

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Teenage Zombie Wasteland: Suburbia after the Apocalypse in Mike Wilson’s , and Edmundo Paz Soldán’s h the topic of the zombie in pop culture without feeling something like a hapless . editor trying to meet a deadline. Once the exclusive province of B-movie connoisseurs and, rather more exotically, philosophers of mind, the zombie as a trope had no doubt jumped the shark long before . had rocketed

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Oesterheld’s Iconic and Ironic Eternautasegan the . [comic] about the time-traveling Juan Salvo, known as the “Eternauta,” in the late 1950s, later revisiting it in the 1960s and 1970s. In the three . narratives in question, . a group of intrepid technologically savvy individuals struggle against a deadly phosphorescent snowfall and a seri

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Brazilian Science Fiction and the Visual Arts: From Political Cartoons to Contemporary Comics found in the work of contemporary Brazilian cartoonists and comic strip artists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It illustrates that early SF cartoons use mainly satirical methods, as per critic Robert Scholes’s concept of ., while contemporary cartoonists employ the SF mode

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Islands in the Slipstream: Diasporic Allegories in Cuban Science Fiction since the Special PeriodLatin America. . While Cubans are now permitted to have personal email accounts, few have regular access to the Internet outside of their place of work, due to both the lack of availability of home Internet service and the prohibitive cost of even basic computers. . The biggest barrier to Internet a