Latin American Science FictionLatin American Science Fiction

The Case of BrazilThe Case of Brazil

M. Elizabeth GinwayDept. Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Recommended ReadingRecommended Reading

Literary Criticism:

M. Elizabeth Ginway, Brazilian Science Fiction (Bucknell UP, 2004)

J. Andrew Brown, Cyborgs in Latin America (Palgrave, 2010)

Literary Criticism:

M. Elizabeth Ginway, Brazilian Science Fiction (Bucknell UP, 2004)

J. Andrew Brown, Cyborgs in Latin America (Palgrave, 2010)

FilmsFilmsBrazil:The Fifth Power (1962) Alberto Pieralisi Isle of Flowers (1989) (short) Basic Sanitation (2007) Jorge

FurtadoMexico: The Aztec Mummy vs. the Human Robot (1957) Rafael

PortilloChronos (1993) Guillermo ToroArgentina:Man Facing Southeast (1987) Eliseo SubielaMoebius (1996) Gustavo Mosquera

US: Sleep Dealer (2007), Alex Rivera

Brazil:The Fifth Power (1962) Alberto Pieralisi Isle of Flowers (1989) (short) Basic Sanitation (2007) Jorge

FurtadoMexico: The Aztec Mummy vs. the Human Robot (1957) Rafael

PortilloChronos (1993) Guillermo ToroArgentina:Man Facing Southeast (1987) Eliseo SubielaMoebius (1996) Gustavo Mosquera

US: Sleep Dealer (2007), Alex Rivera

Fiction in TranslationFiction in Translation

Stories: Cosmos Latinos: Anthology of SF from Latin America and Spain ed. Bell and Molina-Gavilán (Wesleyan, 2003)

Novels: Turing’s Delirium, Edmundo Paz-Soldán (Houghton Mifflin, (2007)

Through the Arc of the Rainforest, Karen Tei Yamashita (Coffeehouse, 1990)

And Still the Earth, Ignacio Loyola Brandão(Avon, 1982)

Stories: Cosmos Latinos: Anthology of SF from Latin America and Spain ed. Bell and Molina-Gavilán (Wesleyan, 2003)

Novels: Turing’s Delirium, Edmundo Paz-Soldán (Houghton Mifflin, (2007)

Through the Arc of the Rainforest, Karen Tei Yamashita (Coffeehouse, 1990)

And Still the Earth, Ignacio Loyola Brandão(Avon, 1982)

DystopiasDystopias Brazil’s Military Dictatorship (1964-1985)

“Economic Development” Foreign capital, extract “surplus”from low

wages paid to workers Mainstream writers use dystopia to avoid

censorship Models Huxley and Orwell And Still the Earth (Não verás país nenhum)

Americanization Authoritarianism Recourse to Myths of National Identity

Brazil’s Military Dictatorship (1964-1985) “Economic Development”

Foreign capital, extract “surplus”from low wages paid to workers

Mainstream writers use dystopia to avoid censorship

Models Huxley and Orwell And Still the Earth (Não verás país nenhum)

Americanization Authoritarianism Recourse to Myths of National Identity

Brazil’s Myths of IdentityBrazil’s Myths of IdentityNational Myths vs. Modernization Green and Fertile Paradise [industrialization] Non-violent, sensual people [women] Racial Democracy [continued inequality] Potential for greatness, landmass and natural

resources [Third World status] Ecofeminism to deconstruct myths of

women/nature; essentialism, atavistic desire to return to a pre-industrial paradise

Novel: The Fruit of Thy Womb (1976) Herberto Sales (available in English)

National Myths vs. Modernization Green and Fertile Paradise [industrialization] Non-violent, sensual people [women] Racial Democracy [continued inequality] Potential for greatness, landmass and natural

resources [Third World status] Ecofeminism to deconstruct myths of

women/nature; essentialism, atavistic desire to return to a pre-industrial paradise

Novel: The Fruit of Thy Womb (1976) Herberto Sales (available in English)

SF as a Barometer for Modernization

SF as a Barometer for Modernization

Pre-dictatorship SF (1958-64), Golden Age, influenced by Ray Bradbury

Iconography by Gary K. Wolfe The Known and Unknown in SF (1979) Humanity: robot, alien [monsters] Environment: spaceship, city,

wasteland “Brazilianization of icons”

Pre-dictatorship SF (1958-64), Golden Age, influenced by Ray Bradbury

Iconography by Gary K. Wolfe The Known and Unknown in SF (1979) Humanity: robot, alien [monsters] Environment: spaceship, city,

wasteland “Brazilianization of icons”

Post Dictatorship SF (1985-

Post Dictatorship SF (1985-

Hard SF (dictatorship, race, gender) Cyberpunk, tupinipunk (international conspiracies) Robots, computers, cyborgs (AIDS, gender issues) Alternate histories (re-think social inequality) Women SF writers (reappropriate, mock machismo) Postmodern mixing of genres, fantasy, horror,

intertexuality (cultural legitimacy)Consciously Brazilian,SF Manifesto, decolonialize SF

parody of 1928 Modernist “Cannibalist Manifesto”

Hard SF (dictatorship, race, gender) Cyberpunk, tupinipunk (international conspiracies) Robots, computers, cyborgs (AIDS, gender issues) Alternate histories (re-think social inequality) Women SF writers (reappropriate, mock machismo) Postmodern mixing of genres, fantasy, horror,

intertexuality (cultural legitimacy)Consciously Brazilian,SF Manifesto, decolonialize SF

parody of 1928 Modernist “Cannibalist Manifesto”

“Third Wave”“Third Wave”

1960s GRD (First Wave) “Golden Age” 1970s Mainstream Writers, Dystopia 1980s, 90s Brazilian SF (Second Wave)

Anti-colonialist, Brazilian themes 2006 “Anti-Brazilitis” (Third Wave)

International or Cosmopolitan Perspective New Generation, internet, fantasy

1960s GRD (First Wave) “Golden Age” 1970s Mainstream Writers, Dystopia 1980s, 90s Brazilian SF (Second Wave)

Anti-colonialist, Brazilian themes 2006 “Anti-Brazilitis” (Third Wave)

International or Cosmopolitan Perspective New Generation, internet, fantasy

Global GenreGlobal Genre

Latin America Writes Back: Critical and Theoretical ArticlesCyberpunk, SF and the Canon,

Graphic novels, Film and Gaming in Latin America

ed. Andrew Brown, Elizabeth Ginway

Latin America Writes Back: Critical and Theoretical ArticlesCyberpunk, SF and the Canon,

Graphic novels, Film and Gaming in Latin America

ed. Andrew Brown, Elizabeth Ginway

Latin America Writes Back: Science Fiction and the Global Era

Latin America Writes Back: Science Fiction and the Global Era

Authors, filmmakers and critics from around the world converged at UF on October 27-29, 2005 a symposium reflecting the growing interest in the science fiction of Latin America.

George Yudice, Edmundo Paz-Soldán, Alberto Fuguet, screening of Moebius (1996),dir. Gustavo Mosquera

Visit www.clas.ufl.edu/events/writesbac

Authors, filmmakers and critics from around the world converged at UF on October 27-29, 2005 a symposium reflecting the growing interest in the science fiction of Latin America.

George Yudice, Edmundo Paz-Soldán, Alberto Fuguet, screening of Moebius (1996),dir. Gustavo Mosquera

Visit www.clas.ufl.edu/events/writesbac

“Alien Vision” post BSF translation into

Portuguese

“Alien Vision” post BSF translation into

Portuguese 12 essays on Brazilian SF/F 2010 12 essays on Brazilian SF/F 2010