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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goodwin, Matthew David (Author)
Other Authors: Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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