The Latinx Files : Race, Migration, and Space Aliens /
"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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| Language: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 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.


