How writers and artists use sciencefiction to speak to the current moment in the CaribbeanExploringthe remarkable recent increase in works of science fiction originating in Spanish-speaking parts of the Caribbean and their diasporas, Tropical Time Machines shows how writers,filmmakers, musicians, and artists are using the language of the genre tocomment on the regions history and present-day realities.Discussinghow previous Caribbean literature and film has characterized places includingCuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic as out of sync with Westerntime, occupying a repeating or static space, Emily Maguire argues that sciencefiction breaks these cycles and resituates the region temporally and spatially.In chapters on cyberpunk, zombies, post-apocalyptic narratives, and the ab-real,Maguire shows how recent cultural production analyzes and critiques the waysglobalization and national...
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