Los esp
Espiritismo, periodismo y cultura popular en las novelas de Eduardo Holmberg, Francisco Miralles y Pedro Castera
Luis C. Cano
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies
Published: 11/2017
Pages: 264
Subject: Literary Criticism
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469641706
DESCRIPTION
This book examines the development of Latin American science
fiction from the mid-nineteenth century until the early days of
Modernsmo via an in-depth discussion of the first three novels
published in Spanish America: Viaje maravilloso del senor
Nic-Nac al planeta Marte by Argentinian writer Eduardo Ladislao
Holmberg, Desde Jupiter by the Chilean Francisco Miralles,
and Querens by Pedro Castera from Mexico. These three novels
incorporate all the attributes that consistently appear in a
science fiction work through a blend of Darwinism and Spiritism,
the two most dominant and widely-debated scientific discourses of
their time. Consistent with the social and political interests in
the recently independent Latin American nations, the three writers
address scientific, aesthetic, intellectual and personal beliefs
through a combination of utopian optimism and dystopian
pragmatism.