Peter Lang companion to Latin American science fiction

Science fiction in Latin America : a matter of names -- The nervo continuum : genre form and the exhaustion of reason -- Science fiction and the literary canon -- Science fiction vs. magical realism : oppositional aesthetics and contradictory discourses in Sergio Arau's A day without a Mexican -- Science fiction magazines in Latin America -- The Latin American science fiction market -- Science fiction and the mainstream -- Utopic islands : science fiction production as transculturation -- That's the attitude : magazines, communities and counterculture in Uruguay and Latin America, 1989-2013 -- Uses of utopia in the disputes of The lettered city, 1770-1850 -- An unnatural selection : science, progress and fiction, 1850-1930 -- The spreading of a literary genre, 1940-1959 -- Made at home : on some of the forms and uses of the science fiction genre, 1960-1990 -- From technological realism to the science-fictional turn in Latin American literature, 1985-2017 -- Politics and science fiction -- Political corpses : zombies in recent narrative -- Aliens, mutants, cyborgs, digital selves : avatars of the posthuman in Latin American science fiction -- Seminal women science fiction writers -- Women science fiction writers in Latin America -- Science fiction as world making : an approach to Latin American science fiction sagas -- Steampunk : Latin American appropriations -- Ecology and science fiction -- Technology and enchantment in Latin American science fiction -- The naive emulator and the allegorical symptom : Latin American pursuits on science fiction cinema -- Utopias and dystopias in Latin American science fiction movies -- Seminal science fiction comics -- Contemporary science fiction comics -- Looking forward to our past : a retrospective on science fiction video games

"Science Fiction, Latin America, Feminism, Science Fiction Comics, Science Fiction Film, Genre, Fantastic, Science Fiction Magazines, History of Science Fiction, Canon, Monsters and aliens, Video Games"--