Tropical time machines : science fiction in the contemporary Hispanic Caribbean / Emily A. Maguire.
2024
PN3433.5 .M34 2024
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Title
Tropical time machines : science fiction in the contemporary Hispanic Caribbean / Emily A. Maguire.
ISBN
9781683404644 electronic book
1683404645 electronic book
9781683404712 electronic book
1683404718 electronic book
9781683404583 hardcover
9781683404828 paperback
1683404645 electronic book
9781683404712 electronic book
1683404718 electronic book
9781683404583 hardcover
9781683404828 paperback
Published
Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, [2024]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 240 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
PN3433.5 .M34 2024
Alternate Call Number
PER004140 LIT004100
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.99729
Summary
"Exploring works of science fiction originating from Spanish-speaking parts of the Caribbean and their diasporas, this book 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"-- Provided by publisher.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 17, 2024).
Series
Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: A Time for Science Fiction in the Hispanic Caribbean
Shades of Destiempo: Caribbean Time and the Rise of Science Fiction
The View from the Future Possible
The Counter-Times of Caribbean Cyberpunk
In the Time of the Zombie: Re-Making of a Caribbean Icon
After World?s End: Caribbean Postapocalyptic Narratives
Epilogue: Future Possibilities
Shades of Destiempo: Caribbean Time and the Rise of Science Fiction
The View from the Future Possible
The Counter-Times of Caribbean Cyberpunk
In the Time of the Zombie: Re-Making of a Caribbean Icon
After World?s End: Caribbean Postapocalyptic Narratives
Epilogue: Future Possibilities