Science Fusion in Contemporary Mexican Literature

Brian T. Chandler (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2024
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-520-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Brian T. Chandler is a professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His work has been published in edited volumes and journals such as Romance Quarterly, Latin American Literary Review, Hispania, and Chasqui.

A Note on Translations

Introduction: Entangling Science, Literature, and Culture in Mexico

1          Entangled Matter: The Science Poetry of Alberto Blanco

2          Quantum Mechanics, History, and the Question of Scale in Volpi’s En busca de Klingsor

3          Automatons, Androids, and Androcentrism in Padilla’s El androide y otras quimeras

4          A Science of Good and Evil: Sabina Berman’s Darwinian Ethical Turn

5          In Search of a New Language: Autopoiesis and the Anthropocene in Maricela Guerrero’s El sueño de toda célula

6          Dimensions of Embodied Experience: Space and Time in Elisa Díaz Castelo’s Principia

Conclusions: Knowing and Belonging in an Entangled Universe

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.04.2024
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-68448-520-7 / 1684485207
ISBN-13	978-1-68448-520-8 / 9781684485208
Zustand	Neuware