02766oam 2200445 450 991028933930332120230808203901.09780472900046(ebook)9780472121878(ebook)9780472073108(hardback)9780472053100(paperback)(CKB)4100000007010758(EXLCZ)99410000000701075820181028h20162016 fy 0engurm|#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierScience fiction in Argentina technologies of the text in a material multiverse /Joanna PageAnn Arbor, Michigan :University of Michigan Press,[2016].©20161 online resource (235 pages) illustrationsDigital culture booksprint version: 9780472053100 Includes bibliographical references and index.It has become something of a critical commonplace to claim that science fiction does not actually exist in Argentina. This book puts that claim to rest by identifying and analyzing a rich body of work that fits squarely in the genre. Joanna Page explores a range of texts stretching from 1875 to the present day and across a variety of media-literature, cinema, theatre, and comics-and studies the particular inflection many common discourses of science fiction (e.g., abuse of technology by authoritarian regimes, apocalyptic visions of environmental catastrophe) receive in the Argentine context. A central aim is to historicize these texts, showing how they register and rework the contexts of their production, particularly the hallmarks of modernity as a social and cultural force in Argentina. Another aim, held in tension with the first, is to respond to an important critique of historicism that unfolds in these texts. They frequently unpick the chronology of modernity, challenging the linear, universalizing models of development that underpin historicist accounts. They therefore demand a more nuanced set of readings that work to supplement, revise, and enrich the historicist perspective.Digital culture books.Science fiction, ArgentineHistory and criticismLiterature and technologyArgentinaFantasy fiction, ArgentineHistory and criticismScience fiction, ArgentineHistory and criticism.Literature and technologyFantasy fiction, ArgentineHistory and criticism.860.935882Page Joanna1974-802434UkMaJRU9910289339303321Science fiction in Argentina2029311UNINA