Science Fusion in Contemporary Mexican Literature / Brian T. Chandler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chandler, Brian T., author.

Series:

Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory.

Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Mexican literature.

Science in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bucknell University Press 2024

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Science Fusion draws on new materialist theory to analyze the relationship between science and literature in contemporary works of fiction, poetry, and theater from Mexico. In this deft new study, Brian Chandler examines how a range of contemporary Mexican writers “fuse” science and literature in their work to rethink what it means to be human in an age of climate change, mass extinctions, interpersonal violence, femicide, and social injustice. The authors under consideration here—including Alberto Blanco, Jorge Volpi, Ignacio Padilla, Sabina Berman, Maricela Guerrero, and Elisa Díaz Castelo—challenge traditional divisions that separate human from nonhuman, subject from object, culture from nature. Using science and literature to engage topics in biopolitics, historiography, metaphysics, ethics, and ecological crisis in the age of the Anthropocene, works of science fusion offer fresh perspectives to address present-day sociocultural and environmental issues.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Note on Translations

Introduction: Entangling Science, Literature, and Culture in Mexico

1. Entangled Matter: The Science Poetry of Alberto Blanco

2. Quantum Mechanics, History, and the Question of Scale in Jorge Volpi's En busca de Klingsor

3. Automatons, Androids, and Androcentrism in Ignacio Padilla's El androide y otras quimeras

4. A Science of Good and Evil: Sabina Berman's Darwinian Ethical Turn

5. In Search of a New Language: Autopoiesis and the Anthropocene in Maricela Guerrero's El sueño de toda célula

6. Dimensions of Embodied Experience: Space and Time in Elisa Díaz Castelo's Principia

Conclusions: Knowing and Belonging in an Entangled Universe

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781684485215

1684485215

9781684485222

1684485223