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Latin American Science Fiction

Latin American Science Fiction. The Case of Brazil. M. Elizabeth Ginway Dept. Spanish and Portuguese Studies. Recommended Reading. Literary Criticism: M. Elizabeth Ginway, Brazilian Science Fiction (Bucknell UP, 2004) J. Andrew Brown, Cyborgs in Latin America (Palgrave, 2010). Films.

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Latin American Science Fiction

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  1. Latin American Science Fiction The Case of Brazil M. Elizabeth Ginway Dept. Spanish and Portuguese Studies

  2. Recommended Reading • Literary Criticism: • M. Elizabeth Ginway, Brazilian Science Fiction (Bucknell UP, 2004) J. Andrew Brown, Cyborgs in Latin America (Palgrave, 2010)

  3. Films Brazil: The Fifth Power (1962) Alberto Pieralisi Isle of Flowers (1989) (short) Basic Sanitation (2007) Jorge Furtado Mexico: The Aztec Mummy vs. the Human Robot (1957) Rafael Portillo Chronos (1993) Guillermo Toro Argentina: Man Facing Southeast (1987) Eliseo Subiela Moebius (1996) Gustavo Mosquera US: Sleep Dealer (2007), Alex Rivera

  4. Fiction in Translation • Stories: Cosmos Latinos: Anthology of SF from Latin America and Spain ed. Bell and Molina-Gavilán (Wesleyan, 2003) • Novels: Turing’s Delirium, Edmundo Paz-Soldán (Houghton Mifflin, (2007) • Through the Arc of the Rainforest, Karen Tei Yamashita (Coffeehouse, 1990) • And Still the Earth, Ignacio Loyola Brandão(Avon, 1982)

  5. Dystopias • Brazil’s Military Dictatorship (1964-1985) “Economic Development” • Foreign capital, extract “surplus”from low wages paid to workers • Mainstream writers use dystopia to avoid censorship • Models Huxley and Orwell • And Still the Earth (Não verás país nenhum) • Americanization • Authoritarianism • Recourse to Myths of National Identity

  6. Brazil’s Myths of Identity National Myths vs. Modernization • Green and Fertile Paradise [industrialization] • Non-violent, sensual people [women] • Racial Democracy [continued inequality] • Potential for greatness, landmass and natural resources [Third World status] • Ecofeminism to deconstruct myths of women/nature; essentialism, atavistic desire to return to a pre-industrial paradise • Novel: The Fruit of Thy Womb (1976) Herberto Sales (available in English)

  7. SF as a Barometer for Modernization • Pre-dictatorship SF (1958-64), Golden Age, influenced by Ray Bradbury • Iconography by Gary K. Wolfe • The Known and Unknown in SF (1979) • Humanity: robot, alien [monsters] • Environment: spaceship, city, wasteland • “Brazilianization of icons”

  8. Post Dictatorship SF (1985- • Hard SF (dictatorship, race, gender) • Cyberpunk, tupinipunk (international conspiracies) • Robots, computers, cyborgs (AIDS, gender issues) • Alternate histories (re-think social inequality) • Women SF writers (reappropriate, mock machismo) • Postmodern mixing of genres, fantasy, horror, intertexuality (cultural legitimacy) Consciously Brazilian,SF Manifesto, decolonialize SF parody of 1928 Modernist “Cannibalist Manifesto”

  9. “Third Wave” • 1960s GRD (First Wave) “Golden Age” • 1970s Mainstream Writers, Dystopia • 1980s, 90s Brazilian SF (Second Wave) Anti-colonialist, Brazilian themes • 2006 “Anti-Brazilitis” (Third Wave) • International or Cosmopolitan Perspective • New Generation, internet, fantasy

  10. Global Genre Latin America Writes Back: Critical and Theoretical Articles Cyberpunk, SF and the Canon, Graphic novels, Film and Gaming in Latin America ed. Andrew Brown, Elizabeth Ginway

  11. Latin America Writes Back: Science Fiction and the Global Era • Authors, filmmakers and critics from around the world converged at UF on October 27-29, 2005 a symposium reflecting the growing interest in the science fiction of Latin America. • George Yudice, Edmundo Paz-Soldán, Alberto Fuguet, screening of Moebius (1996),dir. Gustavo Mosquera • Visit www.clas.ufl.edu/events/writesbac

  12. “Alien Vision” post BSF translation into Portuguese • 12 essays on Brazilian SF/F 2010

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