• ¿Extranjero en tierra extraña? El género de la ciencia ficción en América Latina

    Author(s):
    Antonio Cordoba (see profile)
    Date:
    2011
    Item Type:
    Book
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/9qpg-3s08
    Abstract:
    Latin American science fiction is, first of all, Latin American fiction. Although it has been perceived as a genre that is out of place in the region, one can find basic affinities between local science fiction and literary currents that have played a key role in Latin American cultural history. Using Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares’ works as its theoretical foundation, this book formulates a model of the writing of science fiction in general, inside and outside Latin America. This genre is one more avatar of the literature of astonishment, while, at the same time, it is a corpus in which works belonging to the science fiction tradition are continuously rewritten, in a constant expansion of its repertoire of conventions, tropes and motifs. As a result, in science fiction we find a cognitive oscillation between wonder and the library, in order to produce a controlled dis-location and estrangement of the world shared by authors and readers.
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    Publisher:
    Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla (University of Sevilla Press)
    Pub. Date:
    2011
    ISBN:
    978-84-472-1299-6
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 months ago
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