Latin American Science Fiction

J. Andrew Brown is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.

"Latin American Science Fiction is an essential and timely book. Brown and Ginway have masterfully collected valuable texts that capture the current sci-fi sensibility and provide compelling insights into a growing and mutating genre in the region. The critical scope and depth make this an indispensable volume that discloses the complexity of Latin American literature and film well beyond and away from the cliched perception that it all boils down to magic realism and sociopolitical costumbrismo." - Mike Wilson, Assistant Professor, Facultad de Letras, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and author of El pugil, Zombie and Rockabilly "This study contributes to a better understanding of how Latin American science fiction, although sharing a similar historical context and cultural tradition, is far from homogeneous. Its diversity is highlighted by different theoretical approaches and thematic perspectives of the contributors. A valuable book." - Marcello Simao Branco, co-author of Brazilian Yearbook of Fantastic Literature

• Introduction: 'Critical Latin American SF.'; M. Elizabeth Ginway and J. Andrew Brown PART I: SPECULATING A CANON: LATIN AMERICA'S SF TRADITIONS 1. Ending the World with Words: Bernardo Fernández (BEF) and the Institutionalization of Science Fiction in Mexico; Ignacio Sánchez Prado 2. 'A Young Man, Gleaming, White,' and the Protocol of the Question; Braulio Tavares 3. Bolaño and Science Fiction: Deformities; Álvaro Bisama 4. Time Travel and History in Carmen Boullosa's Llanto, novelas imposibles; Claire Taylor PART II: ON THE PERIPHERY OF THE PERIPHERY: CYBERPUNKS AND ZOMBIES IN LATIN AMERICA 5. Islands in the Slipstream: Diasporic Allegories in Cuban Science Fiction of the Special Period; Emily Maguire 6. Sexilia and the Perverse World of the Future: An Argentine Version of Barbarella and Sade; Fernando Reati 7. Teenage Zombie Wasteland: Suburbia after the Apocalypse in Mike Wilson's Zombie and Edmundo Paz Soldán's Los vivos y los muertos ; David Laraway PART III: COMICS AND FILM: LATIN AMERICAN SF ACROSS GENRE 8. SF and the Cinema of Jorge Furtado; M. Elizabeth Ginway and Alfredo Suppia 9. Oesterheld's Iconic and Ironic Eternautas; Rachel Haywood Ferreira 10. SF in Brazilian Cartoons and Comics; Octávio Aragão