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Science fiction in Argentina : technologies of the text in a material multiverse /

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This book examines an unprecedented range of science fiction texts -- including literature, cinema, theater, and comics -- produced in Argentina from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. These works address themes common to the genre across the industrialized world, including techno-authori...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Page, Joanna, 1974- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press, 2016.
Series:Digital culture books.
Subjects:
Science fiction, Argentine > History and criticism.
Literature and technology > Argentina.
Fantasy fiction, Argentine > History and criticism.
Fantasy fiction, Argentine.
Literature and technology.
Science fiction, Argentine.
Argentina.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Fantasy and science between intellectuals and the masses
  • Mediation and materiality in graphic fiction
  • Time, technics, and the transmission of culture
  • Projection, prosthesis, plasticity: literature in the age of the image
  • Beyond the linguistic turn: mathematics and new materialism in contemporary literature and theater
  • Modernity and cinematic time in science fiction film
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography.