Electricity: Science fiction and modernity in early twentieth-century Russia
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The electricity in the early-twentieth century Russian literature is examined to show how science fiction has provided a vital discursive site for analyzing the continuity between constructs of technological utopia and concepts of modernity in the pre-Revolutionary and Bolshevik eras. Special attention is given to the intertextual dependency of science fiction upon the many cultural discourses of the period, such as canonical and popular literature, mass media, advertisements, and dictionaries.
Publication Name: Science Fiction Studies
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0091-7729
Year: 2003
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The birth of science fiction in Spanish America
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The origins of science fiction as a literary genre in Latin America, especially in Mexico, are explored. The discovery of the Franciscan monk Antonio de Rivas's Syzygles has proven that there was at least one pioneer of early science fiction in the New World who produced a foundational text for the genre in Spanish America in the 17th century.
Publication Name: Science Fiction Studies
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0091-7729
Year: 2003
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A working model for analyzing Third World science fiction: The case of Brazil
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A working model for analyzing Third World science fiction is presented that examines specific works of Brazilian science fiction published during a limited time period. The work is divided into discrete generations or eras based on historical events and are then analyzed in conjunction with a variety of Brazilian cultural myths.
Publication Name: Science Fiction Studies
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0091-7729
Year: 2005
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