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João Guimarães Rosa’s “A Young Man, Gleaming, White” and the Protocol of the Question
The vast oeuvre of Guimarães Rosa includes many tales of the fantastic, but perhaps the only one that can readily be described as science fiction is “Um moço muito branco” [“A Young Man, Gleaming, White”], one of...
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Teenage Zombie Wasteland: Suburbia after the Apocalypse in Mike Wilson’s Zombie and Edmundo Paz Soldán’s Los vivos y los muertos
Awit once remarked that the surest sign that a cultural trend is dead is that Newsweek has finally reported on it. It’s scarcely possible these days to broach the topic of the zombie in pop culture without feelin...
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Introduction
The study of science fiction (SF) in Latin America has been characterized by various contradictions over the years. As is the case with genre studies in other parts of the world, SF and speculative fictions ha...
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Brazilian Science Fiction and the Visual Arts: From Political Cartoons to Contemporary Comics
This chapter traces the evolution of science fiction (SF) motifs in political cartoons from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to those found in the work of contemporary Brazilian cartoonists an...
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Time Travel and History in Carmen Boullosa’s 1991 Llanto, novelas imposibles
This chapter examines one of Mexican author Carmen Boullosa’s most intriguing and complex fictions: the short novel, Llanto, novelas imposibles of 1992. * The title I have chosen to give to this chapter is delibe...
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Bolaño and Science Fiction: Deformities
1946. Marcel Duchamp abandons his chess game for a moment and begins work on “Étant donnés” (Given), a work in which, through two holes, we may contemplate the image of a woman’s body on a moor, holding a lit lam...
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Ending the World with Words: Bernardo Fernández (BEF) and the Institutionalization of Science Fiction in Mexico
In The End of the World as a Work of Art, Spanish philosopher Rafael Argullol speaks of an artist who holds a special relation with the end of times: “The Promethean artist needs to imagine the fall to believe hi...
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Oesterheld’s Iconic and Ironic Eternautas
When speaking of Héctor Germán Oesterheld and his Eternautas series of comics, we are speaking of multiple and interlocking levels of icons. Oesterheld first began the historieta [comic] about the time-traveling ...
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Islands in the Slipstream: Diasporic Allegories in Cuban Science Fiction since the Special Period
In The Matrix, the 1999 Wachowski brothers film, a computer hacker who calls himself Neo is awakened to the fact that what he had previously understood to be “reality” is an elaborate, technologically created faç...
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Science Fiction and Metafiction in the Cinematic Works of Brazilian Director Jorge Furtado
Science-fiction (SF) film in Brazil is indeed rare, and while the genre has made occasional incursions into Brazilian cinema, 1 here we examine the SF sensibility of one of Brazil’s major directors, Jorge Furtado...
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Sexilia and the Perverse World of the Future: An Argentine Version of Barbarella and Sade
It is March 40, 2694, in the city of Sexopolis on the planet known as Plano Terráqueo. 1 A litter carrying the beautiful, seductive, cruel Sexilia makes its way toward “SlaveRevelry 94,” a yearly fair where those...
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Epilogue
“One must stop somewhere.”
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Experience of War in Tolkien’s Fiction
On March 2, 1916, a few weeks before he was to marry, Tolkien wrote a diary-like letter to his fiance, Edith. He found himself stationed in Staffordshire with his battalion, which was due to be sent to the Wes...
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Interlude at Leeds
The professor of English at the University of Leeds, founded in 1904, died suddenly in a drowning accident in 1919, and in the following year, the university announced a new post as reader in English. Tolkien ...
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Language behind Everything
Språksnille (= linguistic genius) was a Swedish word that Tolkien became attracted to. He enjoyed the beauty of sounds, especially in Welsh and Finnish, but also in the Scandinavian languages. I once sent Tolkien...
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Tolkien’s Double Worlds
The origin and inspiration for my work on Tolkien were, in the first place, my own understanding of Tolkien’s ideas from my meetings with the author in the 1960s and 1970s. Tolkien’s oral descriptions of Middl...
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The Reception of The Lord of the Rings in the World
Tolkien’s debut on the world market, The Hobbit (1937), was met with a benevolent reception both in reviews and among readers, and not least in two unsigned reviews in The Times Literary Supplement and in The Tim...
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From Bloemfontein to Birmingham
During the 1960s, I was constantly impressed by Tolkien’s detailed reminiscences of his early life. Even his memory of his holiday with his mother near Cape Town at the age of three seemed a natural result of ...
