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M. Elizabeth Ginway
Author
Language
English
Description
Writers in Brazil and Mexico discovered early on that speculative fiction provides an ideal platform for addressing the complex issues of modernity, yet the study of speculative fictions rarely strays from the United States and England. Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead expands the traditional purview of speculative fiction in all its incarnations (science fiction, fantasy, horror) beyond the traditional Anglo-American context to focus on work produced...
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Combining work by critics from Latin America, the US 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...
Author
Series
Texts and translations. Translations volume 41
Publisher
Modern Language Association of America
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Portuguese
Description
"A lusophone Brazilian novel of gothic horror by Coelho Neto (1864-1934) in which a mystical surgeon joins a female head and a male body, raising questions of gender roles and sexuality. A work of science fiction and occult fantasy, influenced by spiritism and orientalism"--
