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Through the Spaceship's Window : = A Bio-Political Reading of 20th Century Latin American and Anglo-Saxon Science Fiction.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Through the Spaceship's Window :/
Reminder of title:	A Bio-Political Reading of 20th Century Latin American and Anglo-Saxon Science Fiction.
Author:	Cruz, Juan David.
Description:	1 online resource (383 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-11A(E).
Subject:	Latin American literature. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780438113978

Through the Spaceship's Window : = A Bio-Political Reading of 20th Century Latin American and Anglo-Saxon Science Fiction.
Cruz, Juan David.

Through the Spaceship's Window :A Bio-Political Reading of 20th Century Latin American and Anglo-Saxon Science Fiction. - 1 online resource (383 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of South Carolina, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation consists of a bio-political reading of a wide variety of Latin American, American, and British works of science fiction, written from 1919 to 1989. In this project I have analyzed how works of science fiction in different historical and geographical contexts deal with issues such as eugenics, racism, fear of the alien, the threat of nuclear global conflict, etc. I have made a conscious effort to demonstrate that Latin America has been part of global phenomena such as the Cold War, and has produced a wide and rich corpus of science fiction works that deal with these global issues, as well as with local political or social circumstances particular to the nations where these works were written and read. My project demonstrates that Latin America is no stranger to Modernity, and has articulated its own understanding of what Modernity is; this can be seen in several of the works of that I have analyzed.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780438113978Subjects--Topical Terms:

1008213
Latin American literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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