Science Fiction in Argentina

Technologies of the Text in a Material Multiverse

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by Joanna Page

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Science Fiction

Keywords

science fiction, Argentina

Publishing date

2016

Publisher

University of Michigan Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 246 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-0-472-05310-0

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Book Presentation:
An exploration of science fiction literature, cinema, theater, and comics from Argentina over the last 140 years.It has become something of a critical commonplace to claim that science fiction does not actually exist in Argentina. This book puts that claim to rest by identifying and analyzing a rich body of work that fits squarely in the genre. Joanna Page explores a range of texts stretching from 1875 to the present day and across a variety of media-literature, cinema, theatre, and comics-and studies the particular inflection many common discourses of science fiction (e.g., abuse of technology by authoritarian regimes, apocalyptic visions of environmental catastrophe) receive in the Argentine context. A central aim is to historicize these texts, showing how they register and rework the contexts of their production, particularly the hallmarks of modernity as a social and cultural force in Argentina. Another aim, held in tension with the first, is to respond to an important critique of historicism that unfolds in these texts. They frequently unpick the chronology of modernity, challenging the linear, universalizing models of development that underpin historicist accounts. They therefore demand a more nuanced set of readings that work to supplement, revise, and enrich the historicist perspective.



Joanna Page is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Cambridge.

See the publisher website: University of Michigan Press