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

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Page, Joanna, 1974-
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
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1 online resource
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Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Fantasy and Science between Intellectuals and the Masses -- Science, Fantasy, and the Masses in Holmberg's Narrative Fiction -- El Eternauta: The Intellectual in War and Revolution -- Conclusion: Materialism, between Darwin and Marx -- 2.Mediation and Materiality in Graphic Fiction -- Myth and Materiality in the Neoliberal City: Ricardo Barreiro's Science Fiction Comics -- Comics, the Archive, and Cognitive Practices -- Conclusion: (Re)materialization in Graphic Fiction -- 3.Time, Technics, and the Transmission of Culture -- Cultural Transmission, Apocalypse, and the End of History in Plop -- Evolution in Reverse: Post-Darwinism and Mnemotechnics in El ano del desierto -- Cruz diablo: Technics, Psychopower, and the Cybernetic Gaucho -- Conclusion: The End of (Universal) History -- 4.Projection, Prosthesis, Plasticity: Literature in the Age of the Image -- Life beyond Death in the Cold Chemistry of Quiroga's Celluloid Screens -- The Magic of Machines: Anthropomorphic and Cosmomorphic Desire in La invencion de Morel -- El juego de los mundos: From Prosthesis to Plasticity -- Conclusion: Plasticity and the "Dusk of Writing" -- 5.Beyond the Linguistic Turn: Mathematics and New Materialism in Contemporary Literature and Theater -- The Mathematics of the Material Universe: The Science Fiction Theater of Javier Daulte and Rafael Spregelburd -- New Subjectivities and New Materialisms in Marcelo Cohen's Metafictions -- Conclusion: The "Eternal Dance of Atoms" -- 6.Modernity and Cinematic Time in Science Fiction Film -- Polytemporality in Estrellas and Condor Crux: A Critique of the Homogeneous Time of Historicism and Modernity -- Retrofuturism and Reflexivity: The Construction of Cinematic Time in La antena and La sonambula -- Conclusion: (Post)Modernity and Cinematic Time.
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9780472073108 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9780472053100 (paperback : acid-free paper)
9780472121878 (e-book)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index.
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