{"product_id":"tropical-time-machines-science-fiction-in-the-contemporary-hispanic-caribbean-hardcover","title":"Tropical Time Machines: Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmily A. Maguire\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow writers and artists use science\u003cbr\u003efiction to speak to the current moment in the Caribbean\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExploring\u003cbr\u003ethe remarkable recent increase in works of science fiction originating in Spanish-speaking parts of the Caribbean and their diasporas, \u003ci\u003eTropical Time Machines\u003c\/i\u003e shows how writers, \u003cbr\u003efilmmakers, musicians, and artists are using the language of the genre to\u003cbr\u003ecomment on the region's history and present-day realities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDiscussing\u003cbr\u003ehow previous Caribbean literature and film has characterized places including\u003cbr\u003eCuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic as \"out of sync\" with Western\u003cbr\u003etime, occupying a repeating or static space, Emily Maguire argues that science\u003cbr\u003efiction breaks these cycles and resituates the region temporally and spatially.\u003cbr\u003eIn chapters on cyberpunk, zombies, post-apocalyptic narratives, and the ab-real, \u003cbr\u003eMaguire shows how recent cultural production analyzes and critiques the ways\u003cbr\u003eglobalization and national leadership have reinforced the region's\u003cbr\u003emarginalization amid economic and climate crises. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArt\u003cbr\u003ethat employs the science fictional mode makes room for a new vision of the\u003cbr\u003eCaribbean, Maguire demonstrates--an alternate perspective in which the region\u003cbr\u003ehas agency in shaping its own narratives and trajectories. The texts themselves\u003cbr\u003eare time machines, enabling creators to protest inequalities of the present\u003cbr\u003efrom the point of view of an imagined, transformed future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA\u003cbr\u003evolume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin\/o\u003cbr\u003eAmerica, edited by H?ctor Fern?ndez L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodr?guez \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublication of this work made possible by a\u003cbr\u003eSustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the\u003cbr\u003eNational Endowment for the Humanities\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 18, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47404208554162,"sku":"9781683404583","price":137.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/42d1c8cfc3c72d00b58499fc24c1b7d6.webp?v=1778154967","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/tropical-time-machines-science-fiction-in-the-contemporary-hispanic-caribbean-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}