The Latinx Files : Race, Migration, and Space Aliens /

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"In science fiction and popular culture, Latinxs and Latinx immigrants are often correlated with invading space aliens. At times serious, at other times a farce, this correlation is typically meant in a derogatory way to portray Latinxs as foreign and threatening the nation. In The Latinx Files...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Goodwin, Matthew David (Autor)
Otros Autores: Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969- (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Science fiction, Latin American.
Literature and race.
Extraterrestrial beings in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Extraterrestres dans la litterature.
Science fiction, Latin American > History and criticism.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Why the Space of the Latinx Speculative Matters by Frederick Luis Aldama
  • Introduction: A brief survey of Latinx science fiction
  • On space aliens
  • Gloria Anzaldúa and the making of an alien consciousness
  • Reclaiming the space alien
  • Aliens in a strange land
  • The unbearable enlightenment of the space alien
  • Space aliens and the discovery of horror
  • La conciencia chupacabras
  • Conclusion: Fight the future.

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