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Tropical Time Machines

- Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean

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How writers and artists use science fiction to speak to the current moment in the Caribbean Exploring the remarkable recent increase in works of science fiction originating from Spanish-speaking parts of the Caribbean and their diasporas, Tropical Time Machines shows how writers, filmmakers, musicians, and artists are using the language of the genre to comment on the region's history and present-day realities. Discussing how previous Caribbean literature and film has characterized places including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic as "out of sync" with Western time, occupying a repeating or static space, Emily Maguire argues that science fiction breaks these cycles and resituates the region temporally and spatially. In chapters on cyberpunk, zombies, post-apocalyptic narratives, and the ab-real, Maguire shows how recent cultural production analyzes and critiques the ways globalization and national leadership have reinforced the region's marginalization amid economic and climate crises. Art that employs the science fictional mode makes room for a new vision of the Caribbean, Maguire demonstrates--an alternate perspective in which the region has agency in shaping its own narratives and trajectories. The texts themselves are time machines, enabling creators to protest inequalities of the present from the point of view of an imagined, transformed future. A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781683404828
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Udgivet:
  • 18. juni 2024
  • Størrelse:
  • 152x229x15 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 381 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 13. december 2024
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How writers and artists use science
fiction to speak to the current moment in the Caribbean
Exploring
the remarkable recent increase in works of science fiction originating from
Spanish-speaking parts of the Caribbean and their diasporas, Tropical Time Machines shows how writers,
filmmakers, musicians, and artists are using the language of the genre to
comment on the region's history and present-day realities.
Discussing
how previous Caribbean literature and film has characterized places including
Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic as "out of sync" with Western
time, occupying a repeating or static space, Emily Maguire argues that science
fiction breaks these cycles and resituates the region temporally and spatially.
In chapters on cyberpunk, zombies, post-apocalyptic narratives, and the ab-real,
Maguire shows how recent cultural production analyzes and critiques the ways
globalization and national leadership have reinforced the region's
marginalization amid economic and climate crises.
Art
that employs the science fictional mode makes room for a new vision of the
Caribbean, Maguire demonstrates--an alternate perspective in which the region
has agency in shaping its own narratives and trajectories. The texts themselves
are time machines, enabling creators to protest inequalities of the present
from the point of view of an imagined, transformed future.

A
volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o
America, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez

Publication
of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American
Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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