Mexican Women Writers of Science Fiction

The Post-Female Novum
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-86281-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 371 g

Reihe: Studies in Global Science Fiction

This book is the first to offer an in-depth scholarly study of Mexican women writers of science fiction and highlight their innovative contributions to the growth and development of the genre in Mexico. By conducting close readings of twenty short stories authored by Mexican women from the 1950s to the present, Manickam reveals what women writers can do with science fiction that they cannot with "more traditional genres", what new paradigms of female agency are apparent in science fiction, and the insights science fiction provide us regarding Mexican women's negotiations with modernity. In so doing, he demonstrates how Mexican women writers reimagine traditional icons of science fiction to creatively explore what it means to be a modern woman relinquishing traditional feminine roles to enter new technology-informed domains once occupied almost solely by men.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Manickam, Samuel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction,- Chapter 2: Modern Metamorphoses of Motherhood.- Chapter 3: Fluid Extraterrestrial Identities.- Chapter 4: Evolutions of the Female Scientist.- Chapter 5: Final Words.

Über Autor(innen)

Samuel Manickam is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish at the University of North Texas, USA. He teaches classes on Mexican culture and literature, among other areas. His research area is in twentieth and twenty-first century Mexican narrative with a focus on science fiction and women writers.