Research Catalog

Title

The Latinx files : race, migration, and space aliens / Matthew David Goodwin ; foreword by Frederick Luis Aldama.

Author

Goodwin, Matthew David

Publication

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969-

Description

xv, 146 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.

Summary

"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, Matthew David Goodwin traces how Latinx science fiction writers are reclaiming the space alien from its xenophobic legacy in the science fiction genre. The book argues that the space alien is a vital Latinx figure which is preserving Latinx cultures by activating the myriad possible constructions of the space alien to represent race and migration in the popular imagination. The works discussed in this book, including those of H.G. Wells, Gloria Anzaldúa, Junot Diaz, André M. Carrington, and many others, often explicitly reject the derogatory correlation of the space alien and Latinxs, while at other times, they contain space aliens that function as a source of either enlightenment or horror for Latinx communities. Throughout this nuanced analysis, The Latinx Files demonstrates how the character of the space alien has been significant to Latinx communities and has great potential for future writers and artists"--

Series Statement

Global media and race

Uniform Title

Global media and race.

Subject

• Science fiction, Latin American > History and criticism
• Extraterrestrial beings in literature
• Literature and race
• Science fiction, Latin American
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

Literary criticism.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / 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.

Call Number

JFE 21-4406

ISBN

• 9781978815100
• 1978815107
• 9781978815117
• 1978815115

LCCN

2020035573

OCLC

1193123215

Author

Goodwin, Matthew David, author.

Title

The Latinx files : race, migration, and space aliens / Matthew David Goodwin ; foreword by Frederick Luis Aldama.

Publisher

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Global media and race

Global media and race.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969- writer of foreword.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-4406