Altermundos by Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson

The Future of Food Indigenous Knowledges and Sustainable Food Systems in Latin Speculative Fiction.

UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, December 2016. Altermundos Latin Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture. Gaspar de Alba and Valencia hyperbolize those dystopias to critique and ultimately abolish them. Altermundos: Latin Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture. The borderlands in Desert Blood and Capitalismo gore are hyperbolically reimagined as dystopias of neoliberal patriarchal violence. That magnification serves to highlight (and demand the critical transformation of) historical and structural conditions that have created and perpetuated those crises. Altermundos : Latin Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture. Desert Blood and Capitalismo gore exemplify a tendency in borderlands literature to hyperbolically magnify borderlands crises of violence, misogyny, exploitation, and racism to all-encompassing dimensions. Merla-Watson, Catheryn Josefina Olguin, B.v. It features original essays from more than twenty-five scholars as well. Altermundos: Latin Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture provides a comprehensive alternative to the view of speculative fiction as a largely white, male, Eurocentric, and heteronormative genre. It can be used to create virulently racist mischaracterizations of borderlands life, and it can be used critically, as Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Sayak Valencia use it in Desert Blood and Capitalismo gore, to draw attention to structural forms of violence that imperil the borderlands on a daily basis. Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson (Editor), B.V. There is a growing tendency to hyperbolize the U.S.-Mexican borderlands as a “dystopian zone of terror.” Dystopian borderlands hyperbole is double-edged. /rebates/2faltermundos-cathryn-josefina-merla-watson-9780895511638&252faltermundos-cathryn-josefina-merla-watson-978089551163826tc3dbing-&idwordery&nameWordery&ra4.

Altermundos by Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson