Combining work by critics from Latin America, the USA, and Europe, Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice is the first anthology of articles in English to examine science fiction in all of Latin America, from Mexico and the Caribbean to Brazil and the Southern Cone. Using a variety of sophisticated theoretical approaches, the book explores not merely the development of a science fiction tradition in the region, but more importantly, the intricate ways in which this tradition has engaged with the most important cultural and literary debates of recent year.
Cyborgs in Latin America explores the ways cultural expression in Latin America has grappled with the changing relationships between technology and human identity.
This text examines the strategies by which narrative shapes scientific discourse and through which popular science determines narrative form over 150 years of Argentine writing. Beginning with Domingo Sarmiento and the Generation of 1837 and continuing through authors such as Lucio Mansilla, Roberto Arlt, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, and others. Test Tube Envy explores the construction and exercise of social power on and through scientific expression.
Andrew Brown edited and wrote the Introduction to Tecnoescritura: Literatura y tecnología
en América Latina, Special Issue of Revista Iberoamericana 73.221 (Oct.-Dec. 2007). He has
also written: “Edmundo Paz Soldán and his Precursors: Borges, Dick and the SF Canon” in
Science Fiction Studies 34 (November 2007): 473-83; “Identidad poshumana en Lóbulo de
Eugenia Prado” in Revista Iberoamericana 73.221 (Oct.-Dic. 2007): 801-12; “Sobrevivientes
y cyborgs: Cine argentino al final de la dictadura”, in Cine, Historia y Sociedad: Cine argentino y brasileño desde los años 80. Eds. Gastón Lillo and Walter Moser. Ottawa: Legas, 2007.
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