Science Fusion in Contemporary Mexican Literature
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Science Fusion in Contemporary Mexican Literature

  1. 236 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Science Fusion in Contemporary Mexican Literature

About this book

Science Fusion draws on new materialist theory to analyze the relationship between science and literature in contemporary works of fiction, poetry, and theater from Mexico. In this deft new study, Brian Chandler examines how a range of contemporary Mexican writers "fuse" science and literature in their work to rethink what it means to be human in an age of climate change, mass extinctions, interpersonal violence, femicide, and social injustice. The authors under consideration here—including Alberto Blanco, Jorge Volpi, Ignacio Padilla, Sabina Berman, Maricela Guerrero, and Elisa Díaz Castelo—challenge traditional divisions that separate human from nonhuman, subject from object, culture from nature. Using science and literature to engage topics in biopolitics, historiography, metaphysics, ethics, and ecological crisis in the age of the Anthropocene, works of science fusion offer fresh perspectives to address present-day sociocultural and environmental issues.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Note on Translations
  8. Introduction: Entangling Science, Literature, and Culture in Mexico
  9. 1. Entangled Matter: The Science Poetry of Alberto Blanco
  10. 2. Quantum Mechanics, History, and the Question of Scale in Jorge Volpi’s En busca de Klingsor
  11. 3. Automatons, Androids, and Androcentrism in Ignacio Padilla’s El androide y otras quimeras
  12. 4. A Science of Good and Evil: Sabina Berman’s Darwinian Ethical Turn
  13. 5. In Search of a New Language: Autopoiesis and the Anthropocene in Maricela Guerrero’s El sueño de toda célula
  14. 6. Dimensions of Embodied Experience: Space and Time in Elisa Díaz Castelo’s Principia
  15. Conclusions: Knowing and Belonging in an Entangled Universe
  16. Acknowledgments
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. About the Author