Latin American Science Fiction

J. Andrew Brown is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.

Introduction: 'Critical Latin American SF.'; M. Elizabeth Ginway and J. Andrew Brown PART I: SPECULATING A CANON: LATIN AMERICA'S SF TRADITIONS 1. Ending the World with Words: Bernardo Fernández (BEF) and the Institutionalization of Science Fiction in Mexico; Ignacio Sánchez Prado 2. 'A Young Man, Gleaming, White,' and the Protocol of the Question; Braulio Tavares 3. Bolaño and Science Fiction: Deformities; Álvaro Bisama 4. Time Travel and History in Carmen Boullosa's Llanto, novelas imposibles; Claire Taylor PART II: ON THE PERIPHERY OF THE PERIPHERY: CYBERPUNKS AND ZOMBIES IN LATIN AMERICA 5. Islands in the Slipstream: Diasporic Allegories in Cuban Science Fiction of the Special Period; Emily Maguire 6. Sexilia and the Perverse World of the Future: An Argentine Version of Barbarella and Sade; Fernando Reati 7. Teenage Zombie Wasteland: Suburbia after the Apocalypse in Mike Wilson's Zombie and Edmundo Paz Soldán's Los vivos y los muertos ; David Laraway PART III: COMICS AND FILM: LATIN AMERICAN SF ACROSS GENRE 8. SF and the Cinema of Jorge Furtado; M. Elizabeth Ginway and Alfredo Suppia 9. Oesterheld's Iconic and Ironic Eternautas; Rachel Haywood Ferreira 10. SF in Brazilian Cartoons and Comics; Octávio Aragão