Research Catalog

Title

Altermundos : Latin@ speculative literature, film, and popular culture / edited by Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson and B. V. Olguín.

Publication

• Los Angeles : UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, 2017.
• ©2017

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Merla-Watson, Cathryn Josefina
• Olguín, B. V., 1965-

Description

xii, 492 pages; 23 cm

Series Statement

Aztlán anthology series ; Volume 4

Uniform Title

Aztlán anthology series ; v. 4.

Subject

• American fiction > Hispanic American authors > History and criticism
• American fiction > Mexican American authors > History and criticism
• American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
• Speculative fiction, American > History and criticism
• Hispanic American women > Intellectual life
• Mexican American women > Intellectual life
• Women and literature > United States
• Motion pictures and women > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• I. Reassessing Chican@ and Latin@ speculative aesthetics. The emancipatory power of the imaginary: defining Chican@ and Latin@ speculative productions / William A. Calvo-Quirós -- Recovering Gloria Anzaldúa's sci-fi roots: Nepantler@ visions in the unpublished and published speculative precursors to Borderlands / Susana Ramírez -- Reading Jaime Hernandez's comics as speculative fiction / Shelley Streeby -- Chicana/o cyberpunk after el movimiento / Lysa Rivera.
• II. Cyborgs, networks, and posthumanism. From code to codes: tricksterizing the digital divide in Ernest Hogan's Smoking Mirror Blues / Daoine S. Bachran -- Contrapuntal cyborgs? the ideological limits and revolutionary potential of Latin@ science fiction / B. V. Olguín -- Machete don't text: from genre testualities to media networks in Machete / William Orchard -- Girl in a coma tweets Chicanafuturism: decolonial visions, social media, and archivista praxis / Michelle Habell-Pallán.
• III. Latin@ horror and the politics of monstrosity. #rapetreesarereal: Chican@futurism and hybriding horror in Christopher Carmona's "Strange Leaves" / Cynthia Saldivar -- Contesting monstrosity in horror genres: Chicana feminist mappings of de la Peña's "Refugio" and Hamilton's Anita Blake, vampire hunter series / Luz María Gordillo -- Colonial pasts, utopian futures: creative and critical reflections on the monstrous as salvific / Linda Heidenreich.
• IV. From the dystopic to the utopic. The future of food? Indigenous knowledges and sustainable food systems in Latin@ speculative fiction / Gabriela Nuñez -- Narrating the right to health: speculative genre in Morales's The Rag Doll Plagues / Andrew Uzendoski -- "Waking the Sleeping Giant": mestizaje, ideology, and the postcyberpunk poetics of Carlos Miralejos's Texas 2077 José R. Flores -- Engineering Afro-Latina and Mexican immigrant heroines: biopolitics in Borderlands speculative literature and film / Isabel Millán -- Decolonizing the future today: speculative testimonios and nepantlers futurisms in student activism at the University of California, Davis / Natalia Deeb-Sossa adn Susy J. Zepeda.
• V. Charting the Chican@ futurist visual art. Juventino Aranda and Chican@futurism / Margarita E. Pignataro -- For those seeking signs of intelligent life: Xicana chronicles ofthe original alien ancestors / Debora Kuetzpal Vasquez -- The mission manifesto: project MASA / Luis Valderas -- (Trans)Mission possible: the coloniality of gender, speculative rasquachismo, and altermundos in Luis Valdera's Chican@futurist visual art / Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson -- Mundos alternos: a skylab for speculative curation / Robb Hernández.
• VI. Latin@ literary altermundos and multiverses. Intimations of infinite entanglement: notes toward a prolegomena for any future: repudiatroy postscript to the farthest home is in an empire of fire / John Phillip Santos -- Becoming Nawli: utopian dreaming at the end of the world / Cordelia E. Barrera -- Chicanonautica manifesto / Ernest Hogan -- Flying saucers in the barrio: forty years ago, Chicano students in Crystal City created a Bowie-inspired speculative rock opera / Gregg Barrios -- Sexy cyborg cholo clownz / Joe Jiménez -- The canción cannibal cabaret: a post-apocalyptic anarcha-feminist revolutionary punk rock musical / Amalia Ortiz -- Rewrite the future! Notes on editing Latin@ Rising: an anthology of Latin@ science fiction and fantasy / Mattew David Goodwin.

Call Number

JFE 17-6039

ISBN

• 9780895511638
• 0895511630

LCCN

2016059829

OCLC

948562527

Title

Altermundos : Latin@ speculative literature, film, and popular culture / edited by Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson and B. V. Olguín.

Publisher

Los Angeles : UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Aztlán anthology series ; Volume 4

Aztlán anthology series ; v. 4.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Merla-Watson, Cathryn Josefina, editor.

Olguín, B. V., 1965- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-6039