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Ciencia ficción en Puerto Rico : heraldos de la catástrofe, el apocalipsis y el cambio / Angel A. Rivera.
LIBRA PN3433.6 .R58 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rivera, Ángel A. (Ángel Antonio), 1960- author.
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction--History and criticism.
- Science fiction.
- Science fiction, Puerto Rican--History.
- Science fiction, Puerto Rican.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 250 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Segunda edición, revisada.
- Place of Publication:
- San Juan, Puerto Rico : Disonante, 2021.
- ©2021
- Summary:
- Rivera tracks works and authors dedicated to science fiction; he educates us about the centrality of this modality in the letters of Puerto Rico; and fixes the inaugural coordinates for the study of it. Tapia y Rivera sets the standard and the modality develops clandestinely, with a cosmopolitan impulse and invoking British, American, Soviet, Argentine, and Cuban legacies. Rivera listens to works by Tapia, W. Lloréns, P. Cabiya, R. Acevedo, R. Soto, J. Torres, M. Adrover, José Borges, G. López, and DC Acevedo, stars of the area. He suggests that the works are distracted by the present, the future and the past, that multiple, rugged, viral, subatomic, thermodynamic, nuclear imaginaries run through them. The country, the region and the planet coexist with the apocalypse, the disaster, the chimerical cruelty of financial capitalism, technomodernity. They portray a world at war in which humanity turns against otherness, the ecosystem, planetary life, or reason itself. Rivera declares a bet, as a common thread that crosses the imaginary of disaster in science fiction: rescue, escape through options: solidarity, friendship and love (let's think of eros, ápape, pragma, storge, philia, ludus). This book opens a field and reconstitutes it.
- Contents:
- Cambio, desastres y utopías
- Alejandro Tapia y Rivera : ciencia ficción, zombis y tecnologías del yo
- Washington Llorens : amor, ciencia ficción y modernidad en La reblión de los átomos (1960)
- Comunidades inoperantes y ciencia ficción en Pedro Cabiya y Rafael Acevedo
- Ciencia ficción, el trance y la vida precaria en Raúl Soto
- La venganza del contagio o el poder de los colmillos en María V de Pedro Cabiya
- El poema que se devora a sí mismo : Undead de John Torres o el exquisito cadáver de las intertextualidades
- Quantum Weaver Yocahú de Miguel Adrover Lausell : contra la crisis, una estética del movimiento
- De precariedades, plagas, medicina y religión en Esa entigua tristeza de José Borges
- Gretchen López, rescritura del cuerpo y la ciencia ficción en Otsukumi
- Catástrofe, contagio sexo y fin del mundo en David Caleb Acevedo : Historias para pasar el fin del mundo
- La ciencia ficción en Puerto Rico : un estado de conciencia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781641315784
- 1641315784
- OCLC:
- 1302758189
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