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1 online resource : illustrations. |
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Digital culture books |
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Digital culture books.
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Print resource record. |
| Summary |
This book examines an unprecedented range of science fiction texts -- including literature, cinema, theater, and comics -- produced in Argentina from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. These works address themes common to the genre across the industrialized world, including techno-authoritarianism, new modes of posthuman subjectivity, and apocalyptic visions of environmental catastrophe. At the same time, Argentine science fiction is fully grounded in the social and political life of the nation. The texts discussed here explore the impact of an uneven modernization, mass migration, dictatorships, crises in national identity, the rise and fall of the Left, the question of Argentina's indigenous heritage, the impact of neoliberalism, and the most recent economic crisis of 2001. Argentine science fiction is also highly reflexive, debating within its pages the role of science fiction and fantasy in the society of its day, and the nature of the text in a world of advancing technology. This book makes important contributions to our understanding of science fiction as a genre, as well as to materialist theories of cultural texts. It will also interest students and scholars researching the culture, history, and politics of Argentina and Latin America. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Fantasy and science between intellectuals and the masses -- Mediation and materiality in graphic fiction -- Time, technics, and the transmission of culture -- Projection, prosthesis, plasticity: literature in the age of the image -- Beyond the linguistic turn: mathematics and new materialism in contemporary literature and theater -- Modernity and cinematic time in science fiction film -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Science fiction, Argentine -- History and criticism.
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Literature and technology -- Argentina.
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Fantasy fiction, Argentine -- History and criticism.
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Fantasy fiction, Argentine. (OCoLC)fst00920731
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Literature and technology. (OCoLC)fst01000104
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Science fiction, Argentine. (OCoLC)fst01108647
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Argentina. (OCoLC)fst01205614
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
University of Michigan. Press, publisher.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Page, Joanna, 1974- Science fiction in Argentina. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016] 9780472073108 (DLC) 2015044531 (OCoLC)932163125 |
| ISBN |
9780472121878 (electronic bk.) |
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0472121871 (electronic bk.) |
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9780472900046 (electronic bk.) |
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0472900048 (electronic bk.) |
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9780472073108 (hardback ;) (acid-free paper) |
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0472073109 (hardback ;) (acid-free paper) |
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9780472053100 (paperback ;) (acid-free paper) |
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0472053108 (paperback ;) (acid-free paper) |
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