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This talk explores the use of science fiction elements in recent Hispanic Caribbean cultural production, in particular the ways in which the estranging nature of science fiction intervenes in reading and viewing patterns in the Caribbean context. While some science fiction narratives introduce new worlds or envision radically different future environments, many recent science fiction texts from the Caribbean, whether literary, cinematic, visual, or sonic, engage with or extrapolate from the particularities of contemporary experience. Emily Maguire argues that Caribbean texts deploy science fictional elements as a means of forcing the reader to step back, reframe their gaze, and read both the known and the unknown differently. Science fiction becomes a special “lens,” one that troubles established understandings of national histories and events, plays with current ideas of the nation, and reframes the reader’s perception of literary, cinematic, and cultural canons. ABOUT OUR GUEST
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