How Latin America Saved the World and Other Forgotten Futures

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ID11623590
AuthorsRachel Haywood Ferreira (0000-0003-3322-306X, corresponding author), Rachel Haywood Ferreira Rachel Haywood Ferreira
Year2016
Volume43
Issue2
Pages207-207
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Fiction Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-7729 • E-ISSN: 2327-6207
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5621/sciefictstud.43.2.0207
OpenAlexW2439318176
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited2

Latin America saved the world—and didn’t—many times over in texts written in the 1950s, the incubation period for genre sf in the region. The forward-looking 1950s produced much source material for today’s retrofuturist longings, rather than generating many of those longings of their own. This article draws from some twenty-five fictional works by Latin American authors published in the Argentine magazine Mas Alla [Beyond], an affiliate of Galaxy Science Fiction, between 1953 and 1957. I’m interested in exploring these past images of the future to think about questions such as to whom the future belonged in Latin American sf, what those futures looked like, and which of those past futures we are—and are not—living in today and why. I’m especially interested in how Latin American writers did—and didn’t—challenge Northern assumptions about the future and about the genre and in the impact this has had on subsequent genre writers and readers. This content downloaded from 129.186.176.91 on Thu, 21 Jul 2016 00:09:39 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms

Aesthetics · Art · Economics · Futures contract · Latin Americans · Library science · Literature · Period (music) · Political science · Subject (documents) · Computer Science · History · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction · Youth Culture and Social Dynamics

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