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Science fiction in Argentina : technologies of the text in a material multiverse / Joanna Page.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Page, Joanna, 1974-
- Series:
- Digital culture books
- Digitalculturebooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction, Argentine--History and criticism.
- Science fiction, Argentine.
- Literature and technology--Argentina.
- Literature and technology.
- Fantasy fiction, Argentine--History and criticism.
- Fantasy fiction, Argentine.
- Argentina.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This book examines an unprecedented range of science fiction texts-including literature, cinema, theater, and comics-produced in Argentina from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. These works address themes common to the genre across the industrialized world, including techno-authoritarianism, new modes of posthuman subjectivity, and apocalyptic visions of environmental catastrophe. At the same time, Argentine science fiction is fully grounded in the social and political life of the nation. The texts discussed here explore the impact of an uneven modernization, mass migration, dictatorships, crises in national identity, the rise and fall of the Left, the question of Argentina's indigenous heritage, the impact of neoliberalism, and the most recent economic crisis of 2001. Argentine science fiction is also highly reflexive, debating within its pages the role of science fiction and fantasy in the society of its day, and the nature of the text in a world of advancing technology. This book makes important contributions to our understanding of science fiction as a genre, as well as to materialist theories of cultural texts. It will also interest students and scholars researching the culture, history, and politics of Argentina and Latin America. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Fantasy and Science between Intellectuals and the Masses 15
- Science, Fantasy, and the Masses in Holmberg's Narrative Fiction 16
- El Eternauta: The Intellectual in War and Revolution 31
- Conclusion: Materialism, Between Darwin and Marx 47
- 2 Mediation and Materiality in Graphic Fiction 51
- Myth and Materiality in the Neoliberal City: Ricardo Barreiro's Science Fiction Comics 54
- Comics, the Archive, and Cognitive Practices 68
- Conclusion: (Re)Materialization in Graphic Fiction 79
- 3 Time, Technics, and the Transmission of Culture 81
- Cultural Transmission, Apocalypse, and the End of History in Plop 84
- Evolution in Reverse: Post-Darwinism and Mnemotechnics in El año del desierto 88
- Cruz diablo: Technics, Psychopower, and the Cybernetic Gaucho 96
- Conclusion: The End of (Universal) History 104
- 4 Projection, Prosthesis, Plasticity: Literature in the Age of the Image 106
- Life beyond Death in the Cold Chemistry of Quiroga's Celluloid Screens 108
- The Magic of Machines: Anthropomorphic and Cosmomorphic Desire in La invención de Morel 114
- El juego de los mundos: From Prosthesis to Plasticity 119
- Conclusion: Plasticity and the "Dusk of Writing" 128
- 5 Beyond the Linguistic Turn: Mathematics and New Materialism in Contemporary Literature and Theater 131
- The Mathematics of the Material Universe: The Science Fiction Theater of Javier Daulte and Rafael Spregelburd 133
- New Subjectivities and New Materialisms in Marcelo Cohen's Metafictions 142
- Conclusion: The "Eternal Dance of Atoms" 152
- 6 Modernity and Cinematic Time in Science Fiction Film 154
- Polytemporality in Estrellas and Cóndor Crux: A Critique of the Homogeneous Time of Historicism and Modernity 155
- Retrofuturism and Reflexivity: The Construction of Cinematic Time in La antenna and La sonámbula 171
- Conclusion: (Post)Modernity and Cinematic Time 187.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472073108
- 9780472053100
- 9780472121878
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/dcbooks.13607062.0001.001
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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