Peter Lang Companion to Latin American Science Fiction

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Table of Contents
Prologue (Silvia G. Kurlat Ares and Ezequiel De Rosso)
Part I Identifying Latin American Science Fiction: Limits, Frontiers, Battlefields
	CHAPTER 1 Science Fiction in Latin America: Reading a Hidden Landscape (Silvia G. Kurlat Ares)
	CHAPTER 2 Nervo’s Continuum and the Weariness of Reason: A Hypothesis on the Form of Latin American Science Fiction (Ezequiel De Rosso)
	CHAPTER 3 Consonance and Subversion: Literary Canon and Popular Narratives (Luis C. Cano)
	CHAPTER 4 Science Fiction vs Magical Realism: Oppositional Aesthetics and Contradictory Discourses in Sergio Arau’s A Day Without a Mexican (David S. Dalton)
	CHAPTER 5 The Hispanic Caribbean as a Three-Winged Bird: Science Fiction Production as Transculturation (Juan C. Toledano Redondo)
Part II The Science Fiction Field and Its Formative Forces
	CHAPTER 6 Science Fiction Magazines in Latin America: The Tension between Readability and Innovation (Rodrigo Bastidas Pérez)
	CHAPTER 7 An Overview of the Latin American Science Fiction Market (Carlos Abraham)
	CHAPTER 8 Great Expectations? Latin American Science Fiction and Canon (Con)figurations (Pablo Brescia)
	CHAPTER 9 That’s the Attitude: Magazines, Communities and Counterculture in Uruguay and Latin America (1989–2013) (Ramiro Sanchiz)
Part III A Chronology of Latin American Science Fiction
	CHAPTER 10 Uses of Utopia in the Disputes of the Lettered City (1770–1850) (Ariela Schnirmajer)
	CHAPTER 11 An Unnatural Selection: Science, Progress and Fiction (1850–1930) (Juan Pisano)
	CHAPTER 12 The Dissemination of a Literary Genre (1940–1959) (Miguel Ángel Fernández Delgado)
	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)
	CHAPTER 14 From Technological Realism to the Science-Fictional Turn in Latin American Literature (1985–2017) (Emily A. Maguire)
Part IV Critical Approaches
	Thrilling Politics
	CHAPTER 15 The Political Dimension of Latin American Science Fiction (Iván Rodrigo Mendizábal)
	CHAPTER 16 Political Corpses: Zombies in Recent Argentine Narrative (Sandra Gasparini)
	CHAPTER 17 Fictional Universes in Science Fiction: The Latin American Case (Alejo Steimberg)
Dangerous and Weird Beings
	CHAPTER 18 Agency and Opening of Female Bodies in the First Stories of Aldunate, Gorodischer and Chaviano (Macarena Cortés)
	CHAPTER 19 Women Science Fiction Writers in Latin America: Bioethics and Biopolitics in Laura Ponce and Alicia Fenieux (Teresa López-Pellisa)
	CHAPTER 20 Aliens, Mutants, Cyborgs, Digital Selves: Avatars of the Posthuman in Latin American Science Fiction (Antonio Córdoba)
Amazing Science
	CHAPTER 21 Steampunk Science Fiction: Brazilian Appropriations (Éverly Pegoraro)
	CHAPTER 22 An Ecology of the Death of the Species: The Mourning Play as a Narrative Form (Giovanna Rivero)
	CHAPTER 23 Technology in Latin American Science Fiction: Allegories of Consumption and Conspiracy (Joanna Page)
Part V Visual Languages: Eyes, Ears, Joysticks
	CHAPTER 24 The Eternal Dream of a Minor Cinema: Latin American Dalliances with Science Fiction (Marcos Adrián Pérez Llahí and Silvia Angiola)
	CHAPTER 25 Experimentation, Utopia and Dystopia in Cinema (1969–1999) (Raúl Aguiar)
	CHAPTER 26 Invasions, Adventures and Space Travel in the Visual Language of Comics (Elton Honores)
	CHAPTER 27 On the Trail of the Murderous State: On Latin American Alternate History (Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste)
	CHAPTER 28 Looking Forward to Our Past: A Retrospective on Science Fiction Video Games (Lyz Reblin-Renshaw)
Notes on Contributors
Index