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González, Aníbal. "La ciencia ficción latinoamericana y el arte del anacronismo: "Otra" ciencia ficción es posible." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 58, no. 1 (March 2024): 145–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2024.a931923.

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Abstract: This essay seeks to establish a broader conceptual framework for studying the historical development of Latin American science fiction and its recent turn—in a genre usually focused on other times and worlds—to references to the past and present of Latin American history and culture. Valuable current studies of Latin American science fiction have been devoted primarily to the history of the genre itself and to tropes that have recurred in certain periods of the development of Latin American science fiction, such as cyborgs, androids, and zombies. Few have been devoted to the issues and forces at play in the current rise not only of science fiction in Latin America but of a recognizably Latin American form of science fiction. Through readings focused on the role of history and time in representative Latin American science fictional narratives of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, from the Argentine Juana Manuela Gorriti and the Chilean Jorge Baradit to the Cuban Yoss, the pervasiveness of historicity, the view of indigenous knowledge as proto science (rather than superstition), and a penchant towards dystopias, horror, and the Gothic, are considered as possible defining traits of Latin American science fiction.

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Haywood, Rachel. "The Emergence of Latin American Genre Science Fiction: The Morel Hinge." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 58, no. 1 (March 2024): 163–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2024.a931924.

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Abstract: The evolution of science fiction (SF) in Latin America has been affected concurrently by Northern genre norms and local literary and cultural realities, leading to the development of science fictions unique to the region. Modern genre SF was not imported wholesale to Latin America from the North, nor was it created in a vacuum. So how did the genre transition in Latin America in the 1940s from the relative trough in SF production in the interwar period to the Golden Age of the decades that followed? Adolfo Bioy Casares is perhaps the closest thing we have to an influencer and a bellwether of this moment in genre history. Bioy's ability to juxtapose science and science fictions past and present, to balance plot-driven and experimental writing, and to create new genre hybrids make his work emblematic of this turning point in the evolution of Latin American SF, which I am calling the "Morel hinge." This article considers the theoretical underpinnings of the Morel hinge through an examination of four prologues by Borges and Bioy Casares and illustrates it with a discussion of Bioy's 1944 short story "La trama celeste."

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Brown, Alexandra. "404 Utopia Not Found: Cyberpunk Avatars in Samanta Schweblin's Kentukis." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 138, no. 2 (March 2023): 258–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812923000123.

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AbstractScience fiction criticism has long attended the relationship between form and utopian thought. However, increased study of Latin American narratives has allowed for a return to foundational science fiction theories with renewed perspective. While critics have recognized the tendency of Latin American science fiction to slip between genres, a trend termed the “slipstream phenomenon,” there has been little analysis of its impact on utopian imagination. As a result, we miss one of the region's most unique contributions to broader science fiction traditions. In response, this article locates Samanta Schweblin's Kentukis (2018) within the legacies of cyberpunk and argues that the novel uses slipstream to establish and dismantle a series of classic utopian horizons by shifting its genre identity. In doing so, this work identifies a turn in recent Latin American science fiction that metacritically questions the ability of science fiction form itself to imagine a utopian horizon beyond global capitalism.

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Tobin, Stephen C. "Latin American Science Fiction Studies: A New Era." Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society 1, no. 1 (January 2018): 65–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2018.1497274.

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Fernández-Levin, Rosa. "Critical Approaches to Latin American Fiction." Latin American Research Review 29, no. 1 (1994): 249–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0023879100035457.

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Morrison, Michael A. "The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction by Rachel Haywood Ferreira." World Literature Today 86, no. 1 (2012): 74–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2012.0246.

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Brescia, Pablo. "The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction by Haywood Ferreira, Rachel." Romance Notes 54, no. 3 (2014): 435–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rmc.2014.0081.

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López-Pellisa, Teresa. "Pandoric Dystopias in Latin American Science Fiction: Gynoids and Virtual Women." Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas 48, no. 1 (January 2, 2015): 79–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08905762.2015.1020718.

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Fornoff, Carolyn. "Álvaro Menen Desleal’s Speculative Planetary Imagination." Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 44, no. 1 (May 22, 2021): 43–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.18192/rceh.v44i1.5900.

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Science fiction has long held a marginalized status within the Latin American literary canon. This is due to myriad assumptions: its supposed inferior quality, sensationalist content, and disconnect from socio-historical reality. In this article, I argue for the recuperation of Salvadoran author Álvaro Menen Desleal as a foundational writer of Central American speculative fiction. I explore why Menen Desleal turns to sci-fi - abstracting his fictive worlds to far-off futures or other planets - at a moment when the writing of contemporaries of the Committed Generation was increasingly politicized and realist. I argue that Menen Desleal’s speculative planetary imagination toggles between scaling up localized concerns and evading them altogether to play with “universal” categories. By thinking with the categories of the human or the planet from an ex-centric position, Menen Desleal playfully appropriates generic convention, only to disrupt it from within.

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Paz, Mariano. "South of the future: an overview of Latin American science fiction cinema." Science Fiction Film & Television 1, no. 1 (April 2008): 81–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.1.1.7.

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Robinett, Jane. "Other Realities: Technology and Recent Latin American Fiction." Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 7, no. 3-4 (August 1987): 507–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/027046768700700316.

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Ginway, M. Elizabeth. "The Posthuman Body and Climate Crisis in Latin American Science Fiction Written by Women." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 58, no. 1 (March 2024): 107–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2024.a931921.

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Abstract: Four Latin American women authors—Karen Chacek and Gabriela Damián Miravete of Mexico, and Roberta Spindler and Aline Valek of Brazil—address the current climate crisis in narratives that break down barriers between the human body and the environment. Their stories explore the absorption of elements of the natural world into the human body, suggesting an exchange of both physicality and consciousness. This merging of elements from the plant, insect, and animal realms with the human body is evocative of Donna Haraway's networked body and Bolívar Echeverría's codigofagia , that is, the mixing of diverse codes toward the creation of future societies or civilizational experiments. The texts combine the possibilities of science fiction with the grieving process for a damaged planet, but without essentializing either women or nature. Using Rosi Braidotti's concept of posthuman feminism and Stacy Alaimo's transcorporeality, this article suggests that this approach to climate change—through bodily transformation and transcendent consciousness—captures the resilience of Latin American culture.

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Vania Barraza Toledo. "Latin American Science Fiction Writers: An A-to-Z Guide (review)." Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 8, no. 1 (2004): 270–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hcs.2011.0300.

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Bruce, Scott G. "Sunt altera nobis sidera, sunt orbes alii: Imagining Subterranean Peoples and Places in Medieval Latin Literature." Mediaevistik 32, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 105–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/med.2019.01.04.

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Owing to the enduring popularity of Jules Verne’s science fiction story Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), modern readers have taken for granted a hollow, habitable core beneath the earth’s crust as a time-honored, though scientifically implausible, setting for speculative fiction.1 Verne’s fantastic tale of Professor Otto Lidenbrock’s descent into the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull and his perilous adventures underground featuring forests of giant mushrooms and prehistoric monsters remains the most widely read work of nineteenth-century “subterranean fiction.” In 1926, the story was reprinted in a three-part serial in the widely-read American science fiction magazine Amazing Stories (Fig. 1). Throughout the twentieth century, it spawned a host of imitators, from Edgar Rice Burrough’s Pellucidar series (1914‐1963) to C. S. Lewis’ Narnian chronicle The Silver Chair (1953), as well as a successful 1959 film adaptation starring James Mason and Pat Boone.

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Racięski, Bolesław. "Przyszłość już była. Dystopie w najnowszym kinie science fiction Ameryki Łacińskiej." Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication 28, no. 37 (March 31, 2021): 167–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/i.2020.37.10.

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This paper examines the various ways in which contemporary Latin American science fiction films contest the neocolonial and neoliberal narratives, dominant in the region since the 20th century. I identify and examine strategies that filmmakers employ to challenge the common understanding of such notions as time, modernity and technological progress. I outline the visions of dystopias presented in the examined films, while also analyzing the counter-narratives introduced by filmmakers, which are mostly focused on creating a new, hybrid identity for a future citizen.

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Branca, Domenico. "The politics of humanity: On anthropological science fiction in Peru." Comuni@cción: Revista de Investigación en Comunicación y Desarrollo 14, no. 3 (September 28, 2023): 245–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.33595/2226-1478.14.3.892.

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As a geocultural and temporally defined form of production, science fiction is fully within the scope of anthropological analysis. In this article, I aim to analyze the representation of the notion of humanity in Latin American science fiction. Specifically, I examine four narratives by Peruvian authors that offer a critical political lens on contemporary Peruvian society. As the notion of humanity is a complex and multifaceted concept explored by different disciplines, I seek to contribute to the discussion by providing a case study from social anthropology. Science fiction is a particularly relevant medium for social and political critique, as it allows for exploring real and contemporary situations by constructing possible worlds. Methodologically, I approach these four narratives ethnographically, that is, by contextualizing them within the Peruvian socio-political space. In terms of analysis, this article is framed within the anthropological exploration of colonial relations, the construction of social classifications, the boundaries and borders between the human and the non-human, and human impacts on the planet. I argue that science fiction can offer innovative perspectives that enrich a critical anthropological perspective.

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Romanzoti, Natasha, and Alfredo Luiz Paes de Oliveira Suppia. "Fronteiras da leitura: sobre cinema e literatura, por Manuel Puig." Significação: Revista de Cultura Audiovisual 50 (October 24, 2023): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2023.206471.

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Tradução para o português do texto “Cinema and the Novel”, de Manuel Puig, originalmente publicado em volume editado por John King, Modern Latin American Fiction: A Survey (1987), pp. 283-290, com tradução para o inglês por Nick Caistor.

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Orrego, Jaime A. "Entre la artificialidad y la deshumanización: La ciencia ficción de Horacio Quiroga y Santiago Roncagliolo." Acta Philologica, no. 59 (2022) (December 30, 2022): 63–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/acta.59.2022.6.

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Although science fiction is to be found in Latin American literature, it has always been considered a minor genre on the continent. This may be why some science fiction writers publish under a pseudonym while others have only dabbled in this genre. The paper analyzes Artificial Man (1910) by the Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Close to Life (2010) by the Peruvian Santiago Roncagliolo in order to demonstrate how the use of technology in human beings can be depicted. The article discusses in particular the means by which Roncagliolo highlights the desire for automation that leads a company to dehumanize humans in order to humanize machines.

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Ginway, M. Elizabeth. "The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction by Rachel Haywood-Ferreira (review)." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 47, no. 1 (2013): 190–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2013.0000.

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Lagos, María. "In Search of the Sacred Book: Religion and the Contemporary Latin American Novel. By Aníbal González. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. 244 pages." Latin American Literary Review 46, no. 92 (November 12, 2019): 92–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.26824/lalr.142.

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This study on religion and the contemporary Latin American novel traces the presence of the sacred starting with Federico Gamboa's Santa (1903) and ending with Roberto Bolaño's Los detectives salvajes (1998), placing the narratives discussed within the vast panorama of Western literature and thought. The author acknowledges that the relationship between religion and the novel may seem paradoxical "given the markedly secular nature of prose fiction in Western culture" (3). Yet, elements such as magic, the supernatural, wizards, among others, "bring it closer to the sacred" (4). The book also includes new readings of works by Borges, Bombal, Carpentier, Rulfo, Cortázar, Lezama Lima, García Márquez, Poniatowska, and Fernando Vallejo. Scholar Aníbal González offers a superb contextualization of 20th century Latin American literature within the tradition of Western literature and thought. His study is a must read for critics of Latin American literature and culture.

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Pessoa, Marcelo. "Cem Anos de Solidão e Viver para Contar, de Gabriel García Márquez: expressões de identidade sociocultural latinoamericana." Revista AKEDIA - Versões, Negligências e Outros Mundos 897 (2011): 01–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.33726/abralicandakdpub9788598402079v897a2011p01a13.

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Our work investigates post-colonialism categories in the works One Hundred Years of Solitude and Live to Count. The pillars of our search are fictional and biographical images constituents of the works in question. Such references are focused as expressions sociocultural aspects of the Latin American people. Our interest in the work One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez, is related to the fact that this literary production represents strong elements of contemporary Latin American context. Likewise, we realize that the author, in the literary manifestation of signs of Latinity, makes use of elements consistent with the acculturation to which the Latin American people submitted, as we can see in their biographical work Living to Tell. In Viver para Contar, the experience report reveals that the Latin American singularity is focused on the interface with the European or North American “other”. From these two paradigms emerges the allegorical figure of the neo-colonizer represented by the different dynamics of capital oppression, highlighting the different ways in which singularities were glimpsed in the world and from which they began to interact and metamorphose reciprocally. Finally, it is seen that these connections, among other things, bring out the profile of Latin Americans that we believe to have and/or to be, thus composing a literary iconography1 of the Latin America

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Londero, Rodolfo Rorato. "O próprio e o alheio em el delirio de turing." Diálogos Latinoamericanos 11, no. 17 (January 1, 2010): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/dl.v11i17.113571.

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The objective of this paper is to analyze the novel El delirio deTuring (2003), by Bolivian writer Edmundo Paz Soldán, mainly in itrelationship with the cyberpunk fiction, subgenre of science fiction appearedoriginally in the North American context of 1980's. This relationship appears,at once, in the epigraphs of the work, where a cyberpunk writer (NealStephenson) is quoted: actually, this writer's two works, Snow Crash (1992)and Cryptonomicon (1999), appear as intertexts in El delirio de Turing. ButPaz Soldán, as member of McOndo generation – a globalizated parody ofGarcía Márquez's Macondo –, also maintain an intense dialogue with theirLatin-American antecedents, the writers of magic realism. It is in thatcollision between the own and the alien (Carvalhal), between Latin and NorthAmerican literary references, that we will understand Paz Soldán's work.

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Mosquera, Mariano Ernesto. "On Matrices, Hybrids and Symptoms: Science Fiction and Realism in three Contemporary Latin American Novels." Mitologías hoy 22 (December 27, 2020): 281. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/mitologias.726.

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Ravetti, Graciela, and Eulálio Marques Borges. "A Río Fugitivo de Edmundo Paz Soldán: uma cidade distópica? / The Río Fugitivo of Edmundo Paz Soldán: A Dystopian City?" Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos 25, no. 1 (April 30, 2020): 135. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/2238-3824.25.1.135-150.

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Resumo: Este é um estudo sobre dois romances do escritor boliviano Edmundo Paz Soldán, Sueños Digitales (2000) e El delirio de Turing (2005 [2003]), destacando os tópicos da (1) urbe dividida entre um centro urbano caótico e uma periferia escura e (2) um governo federal com ares totalitários, aspectos pouco abordados até então pela crítica literária especializada. Objetivamos mostrar como a fictícia cidade de Río Fugitivo, onde transcorrem as histórias de Sueños Digitales e El delirio de Turing, funciona como uma espécie de microcosmo dos centros urbanos latino-americanos que conhecemos ao incorporar, parcialmente, em sua construção e em sua dimensão, características pertencentes a um subgênero da ficção científica contemporânea conhecido como cyberpunk. De acordo com nossa perspectiva, não se trataria de obras de ficção científica, mas sim com ficção científica, – gênero pelo qual o autor sempre demonstrou interesse.Palavras-chave: ficção científica; cyberpunk; distopia; Río Fugitivo; Paz Soldán.Abstract: This is a study of two novels by Bolivian writer Edmundo Paz Soldán, Sueños Digitales (2000) and El delirio de Turing (2005 [2003]), underlining the topics of (1) a city divided between a chaotic urban centre and a dark suburb and (2) a federal government leaning towards totalitarianism, elements that are yet to be widely explored by literary critics. The aim is to point out how the fictional city of Río Fugitivo, where the narratives of Sueños Digitales and El delirio de Turing are set, plays the role of a microcosm of the Latin American centres we know by partially incorporating, in the construction and dimension of the novels, characteristics that belong to the subgenre of contemporary science fiction known as cyberpunk. From this point of view, the books studied here would not be considered science fiction works but works containing the genre, which has always interested Soldán.Keywords: science fiction; Cyberpunk; dystopia; Río Fugitivo; Paz Soldán.

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Morales Morante, Fernando, Anna Tous Rovirosa, and Tatiana Hidalgo-Marí. "With a Latin Flavor: Cultural and Narrative Contributions of the Latin American Telenovela to Spanish Fiction." Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research 26, no. 1 (January 2, 2020): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13260219.2020.1778769.

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Álvarez, Brianne Orr. "Vinodh Venkatesh, The body as capital: masculinities in contemporary Latin American fiction." Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes 41, no. 3 (September 2016): 464–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2016.1225684.

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Manickam, Samuel. "Latin American Science Fiction: Theory and Practice ed. by Elizabeth M. Ginway and J. Andrew Brown." Hispania 97, no. 2 (2014): 328–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hpn.2014.0053.

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Richardson, Miles. "Collisions with History: Latin American Fiction and Social Science from “El Boom” to the New World Order." Hispanic American Historical Review 84, no. 4 (November 1, 2004): 722–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182168-84-4-722.

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Dove, Patrick. "The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning (review)." Cultural Critique 49, no. 1 (2001): 183–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cul.2001.0009.

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Ferreira, Rachel Haywood. "Más Allá, El Eternauta, and the Dawn of the Golden Age of Latin American Science Fiction (1953–59)." Extrapolation 51, no. 2 (January 2010): 281–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.2010.51.2.6.

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Lopes da Silva, Anderson. "Latin American Prototypes of Prostitutes and Wives in the Miniseries “Amorteamo”: Reinforced Continuities and Rupture Attempts." Revista del CESLA: International Latin American Studies Review, no. 31 (June 30, 2023): 217–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.36551/2081-1160.2023.31.217-246.

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The article focuses on the Brazilian miniseries “Amorteamo” as its empirical object, discussing Latin American melodramatic prototypes of the prostitute and the wife. The main objective is to identify reinforced continuities and rupture attempts in the analyzed melodramatic images. The literature review and theoretical framework address studies on the representation of prostitutes and wives in television fiction, with a specific focus on the melodramatic prototypes discussed by Oroz and Cassano Iturri. The methodology adopts a multimethod perspective, examining descriptive and interpretive dimensions, as well as the visual and sound aspects of the analyzed scenes. The findings highlight the intrinsic contradictions of television melodrama, particularly evident in three characters: Dora, the prostitute (in her suicide as a reinforced continuity of moral punishment and the “deserved” fate in the world of prostitution), and Lena and Arlinda, the wives (in their symbolic attempts to break away from the traditional “happily ever after” theme that pervades their marital lives).

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Carpenter, Victoria, and Paul Halpern. "A Bridge between Worlds: Parallel Universes and the Observer in “The Celestial Plot” by Adolfo Bioy Casares." KronoScope 19, no. 2 (September 24, 2019): 111–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685241-12341439.

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AbstractAdolfo Bioy Casares’s story “The Celestial Plot” (1948) is among the best known examples of Latin American science fiction writing of the early twentieth century inspired by contemporary advances in quantum physics. Most readings of the story focus on the movements of its main protagonist, Captain Ireneo Morris, as he traverses realities while test-flying a plane. This approach overlooks the role of the story’s other protagonist, Dr. Carlos Servian, who, we argue, is the lynchpin upon which the multiple realities are dependent. We read the changes to Dr. Servian’s character from a variety of scientific and philosophical perspectives on parallel universes. By addressing variations in Servian’s character and language, and focusing on the disparate representations of the key objects in the story, we show how the story anticipates in some ways the Many Worlds notion which argues that reality bifurcates during quantum measurements, leading to near-identical copies of observers.

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Echeverri Zuluaga, Jonathan. "Tropes of Social Becoming Along a History of Circulation Within West Africa and From There to Latin America." REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana 31, no. 67 (April 2023): 37–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-85852503880006704.

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Abstract Since the turn of the 21st century, the circulation of people from West Africa in and out of the African continent has intensified, turning Latin America into an emergent destination and transit zone. Drawing both from scholarly works and fiction, this article reflects on tropes of social becoming within a history of West African human movement that precedes present day circulation. By tropes of social becoming, I mean narratives around people realizing aspirations, in which scholars, storytellers, literary persons, and the media bring it into existence. While some of the tropes this article addresses seem to stretch to pre-colonial times, others are the product of colonial rule, and yet others emerge in times of structural adjustment. These tropes offer an entry point to understanding how present circulations of Africans in West Africa and Latin America relate to continuity and change.

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Adinolfi, Roberto. "Some Interpretations of Foreign Literature during the Epoch of Socialism." Scientific knowledge - autonomy, dependence, resistance 29, no. 2 (May 30, 2020): 283–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.37708/bf.swu.v29i2.20.

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This paper will focus on some Bulgarian translations of works by foreign writers that were published during the epoch of Socialism. Throughout this period several works by authors from territories such as Latin America, Western Europe and the USA were translated into the languages of the Eastern European countries; some of them do not seem to fit the criteria of the Socialism realism: this is the case of genres such as science fiction or fantasy. Authors such as Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, the Italian writers Italo Calvino, Dino Buzzati and many others have been translated into languages such as Bulgarian and Russian. Many of them do not deal mainly with social and political themes, and some of them (for instance Dino Buzzati) are even highly critical towards doctrines such as Marxism. However, in the forewords of some of the Bulgarian translations of their works we can find political and social interpretations. Similar interpretations can also be found in science fiction works and in non-literary works, such as books devoted to practices such as Yoga, which in some books is analyzed from a Marxist point of view.

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Moore, Dashiell. "Recuperating the Value of Nothing in Erna Brodber’s Short Novel Nothing’s Mat." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 27, no. 2 (July 1, 2023): 18–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10795181.

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In Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere (2011), Raphael Dalleo draws on the concept of the field to note that Caribbean writers often “operate within a constrained set of possibilities governed by certain historically determined rules . . . from accommodation to opposition to more conflicted positions in-between.” Throughout her essays and fiction, the Jamaican writer, sociologist, and activist Erna Brodber recuperates discarded, illegible, or negative elements in the literary field of Caribbean literature. This essay argues that Brodber uses a mode of self-negation in her short novel Nothing’s Mat (2011) to open discursive space for individual and collective identities illegible within dominant theories of Caribbean literature such as pluralism or creolization: supernatural elements more readily identifiable in Latin American magical realism, a Pan-African vision decades after Negritude, and a commitment to the experiences of Afro-Caribbean womanhood.

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Dalle Vacche, Angela. "André Bazin's Film Theory: Art, Science, Religion." Artium Quaestiones 31, no. 1 (December 20, 2020): 191–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/aq.2020.31.7.

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Always keen on the spectators’ freedom of interpretation, André Bazin’s film theory not only asks the famous question “What is cinema?,” but it also explores what is a human. By underlining the importance of personalist ethics, Angela Dalle Vacche is the first film specialist to identify Bazin’s “anti-anthropocentric” ambition of the cinema in favor of a more compassionate society. Influenced by the personalist philosophy of his mentor, Emmanuel Mounier, Bazin argued that the cinema is a mind-machine that interrogates its audiences on how humankind can engage in an egalitarian fashion towards other humans. According to Bazin, cinema’s ethical interrogation places human spirituality or empathy on top of creativity and logic. Notwithstanding Bazin’s emphasis on ethics, his film theory is rich with metaphors from art and science. The French film critic’s metaphorical writing lyrically frames encounters between literary texts and filmmaking styles, while it illuminates the analogy between the élan vital of biology and cinema’s lifelike ontology. A brilliant analyst of many kinds of films from Europe, Asia, and Latin America, ranging from fiction to documentary, from animation to the avant-garde, Bazin felt that the abstractions of editing were as important as the camera’s fluidity of motion. Furthermore, he disliked films based on a thesis or on an a priori stance that would rule out the risks and surprises of life in motion. Neither a mystic nor an animist, Bazin was a dissident Catholic and a cultural activist without membership of a specific political party. Eager to dialogue with all kinds of communities, Bazin always disliked institutionalized religions based on dogmas.

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Urraca, Beatriz. "Juana Manuela Gorriti and the Persistence of Memory." Latin American Research Review 34, no. 1 (1999): 151–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002387910002433x.

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AbstractThis study analyzes the work of Juana Manuela Gorriti, one of the most prominent women writers in nineteenth-century Argentina. It unravels the notions that structure Gorriti's ideas of literature, history, and nation and illustrates how her work established close links between memory, continuity, and the role of women in the creation of national identities in Latin America. Her short stories and autobiographical pieces are situated within their historical context and literary milieu. The Rosas dictatorship and its aftermath are examined as played out in Gorriti's fiction, in stories where violence against women, the ghostly, and popular culture became central themes through which Gorriti created myths of personal history and national identity. The essay also explores the ways in which her female characters illustrate the strategies of ordinary women for turning their social constraints into public action.

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Seoane Riveira, José. "Procedimientos cinemáticos en la narrativa de Edmundo Paz Soldán: "Norte" (2011), "Billie Ruth" (2012) e "Iris" (2014)." Tropelías: Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, no. 27 (October 7, 2016): 263. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2017271426.

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La narrativa del escritor boliviano Edmundo Paz Soldán (Cochabamba, 1967), uno de los representantes más destacados de la generación McOndo, contiene numerosos ejemplos de lo que puede considerarse escritura cinemática. Este artículo analiza las estrategias visuales utilizadas por Soldán en Norte (2011), novela que importa rasgos del género negro clásico cinematográfico; su más reciente colección de cuentos, Billie Ruth (2012), que expone varias técnicas literarias que provienen directamente de la imagen o el montaje cinematográfico; y de su última novela, Iris (2014), en la que se llevan a cabo numerosos procesos narrativos pertenecientes al cine de ciencia ficción. Sus narraciones son ejemplos que ponen en relieve la influencia decisiva que los medios de comunicación y entretenimiento, especialmente los de carácter visual y en concreto el cine, tienen en gran parte de la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea. The narrative production of the Bolivian writer Edmundo Paz Soldán (Cochabamba, 1967), one of the most prominent representatives of the McOndo generation, contains numerous examples of what can be considered as cinematic writing. This article analyzes some visual strategies used by Soldán in Norte (2011), a novel which presents characteristics of the classic noir film genre; his latest collection of short stories, Billie Ruth (2012), which sets out various literary techniques that come directly from the image or film editing; and his latest novel, Iris (2014), which carried out numerous narrative processes that belongs to science fiction cinema. His stories are examples that highlight the decisive influence that the media, especially the ones that present image as a central element and in particular the cinema, have in most contemporary Latin American literature.

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CONSTANTINOU, COSTAS M. "Communications/excommunications: an interview with Armand Mattelart." Review of International Studies 34, S1 (January 2008): 21–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210508007766.

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This interview was conducted over the Internet between February and April 2006. Armand Mattelart is Emeritus Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the University of Paris VIII. From 1962 to 1973 he was Professor of Sociology of Population and Communication at the Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, and United Nations expert in social development. During the Popular Unity period (1970–73), he worked with the Government of President Salvador Allende until the military coup of September 1973, when he was expelled from Chile. Between 1975 and 1982, he taught at the University of Paris VII and Paris VIII, and, between 1983 and 1997, as founding member of the Communications Department at the University of Rennes 2 (Haute-Bretagne). He has carried out numerous research and teaching missions in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. His research interests include communication theory and history, media studies and international communication. He has authored and co-authored numerous books, translated into many languages, including: Advertising International: The Privatization of Public Space (1991); Mapping World Communication: War, Progress, Culture (1994), The Invention of Communication (1996), Networking the World 1794–2000 (2000), The Information Society: An Introduction (2003), and, with Michèle Mattelart, Rethinking Media Theory: Signposts and New Directions (1992); The Carnival of Images: Brazilian Television Fiction (1990) and Theories of Communication: A Short Introduction (1998). His most recent book, published in French, is: La Globalisation de la Surveillance: Aux Origines de l’Ordre Sécuritaire (September 2007).

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Anderson, Danny J. "Creating Cultural Prestige: Editorial Joaquín Mortiz." Latin American Research Review 31, no. 2 (1996): 3–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0023879100017933.

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For the past thirty years, the imprint “Editorial Joaquín Mortiz” has stood for innovation, quality, and prestige in Mexican literature. After it was founded in 1962, Joaquín Mortiz quickly emerged as the premier literary publisher in Mexico and has provided readers with many of the novels and short stories now recognized as landmarks defining the contemporary canon of Mexican fiction. Most studies of Mexican narrative of the 1960s have tended to emphasize the dichotomy between the elitist self-conscious experimentation of escritura writing and the irreverent youthful exuberance of onda writing. Shifting the focus from texts to publishers, however, reveals a different configuration. Editorial Joaquín Mortiz actually encouraged both these trends by cultivating the work of escritura authors such as Salvador Elizondo, Juan García Ponce, and José Emilio Pacheco along with those of onda authors like Gustavo Sainz and José Agustín. Moreover, during its first two years, Joaquín Mortiz staked much of its early reputation on promoting two Mexican novels now fundamental to women's writing throughout Latin America: Oficio de tinieblas (1962) by Rosario Castellanos and Los recuerdos del porvenir (1963) by Elena Garro. Thus Editorial Joaquín Mortiz has greatly influenced the development of contemporary Mexican narrative.

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Dalton, David S. "Historia de la ciencia ficción latinoamericana I: Desde los orígenes hasta la modernidad [A history of Latin American science fiction: From its origins to modernity] ed. by Teresa López-Pellisa and Silvia G. Kurlat Ares." Technology and Culture 63, no. 4 (October 2022): 1227–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2022.0180.

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Pires, Antonia Cristina, Gustavo Tanus, and Filipe Schettini. "Picture-Skin, Music-Muscle: The Intersemiotic/ Intermedia Body of Olney São Paulo’s Manhã Cinzenta." Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts 10, no. 2 (March 6, 2023): 135–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.30958/ajha.10-2-4.

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The film Manhã cinzenta (1969), by Brazilian filmmaker Olney São Paulo, is a fictional documentary in a short film, which works with fictional space scenes and real elements (clipping from newspapers, movie posters, radio news, images from student marches, and police repression). As a political-artistic form of resistance to the 1964 Brazilian civil-military dictatorship, it is a manifest against authoritarian regimes, also referring to the Latin American dictatorships of 1960-1970. Based on the work of Rajewsky and Clüver, we analyzed, from the intermediate texture, the relationship between image and music, respectively, “epidermis and muscle” by Wingstedt, threads of an artistic and political texture as elements of the constitution of a multimedia body: metaphor of resistance. The film can contribute to breaking with the logic of domination - a logic that is structured by the monopoly of discourse about the past, which in current times has been trying to extinguish from history, from memory, the violent event of the Brazilian civil-military coup. For this reason, it is important to study it, due to the importance of this film as one of the most significant films about resisting, having also been a metaphor for the life of the filmmaker himself.

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Mowat, John. "Lois Parkinson Zamora, Writing the Apocalypse: Historical Vision in Contemporary U.S. and Latin American Fiction (Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1993. £13.95). Pp. 233. ISBN 0 521 42691 X." Journal of American Studies 28, no. 2 (August 1994): 301–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875800025834.

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Shaw, D. L., and John King. "Modern Latin American Fiction: A Survey." Modern Language Review 84, no. 2 (April 1989): 510. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3731648.

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McQuade, Frank, and Philip Swanson. "Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction." Modern Language Review 89, no. 1 (January 1994): 244. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3733222.

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Grigore, Rodica. "Introduction: Re-reading Latin American Fiction." Theory in Action 12, no. 4 (October 31, 2019): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.3798/tia.1937-0237.1929.

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Higgins, James, and John King. "Modern Latin American Fiction: A Survey." Bulletin of Latin American Research 7, no. 2 (1988): 341. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3338302.

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Turton, Peter, and Philip Swanson. "Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction." Bulletin of Latin American Research 9, no. 2 (1990): 311. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3338505.

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Kane, A. T. "Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 19, no. 2 (April 29, 2012): 409–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/iss041.

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Forns-Broggi, Roberto. "Ecological Imaginations in Latin American Fiction." Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas 45, no. 2 (October 12, 2012): 255–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08905762.2012.719783.

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