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Author Cano, Luis C., author.

Title Los espíritus de la ciencia ficción : espiritismo, periodismo y cultura popular en las novelas de Eduardo Holmberg, Francisco Miralles y Pedro Castera / por Luis C. Cano
Published Chapel Hill : U.N.C. Department of Romance Studies, 2017
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press

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Description 1 online resource (263 pages)
Series North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; number 313
North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; no. 313.
Contents La cultura popular, los géneros populares y la ciencia-ficción -- De manías planetarias y un gato negro: Viaje maravilloso del señor Nic-Nac -- Mutabilidades genericas: Desde Júpiter de Francisco Miralles -- Viajes interiores: Querens de Pedro Castera -- Consideraciones finales
Summary "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."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Holmberg, Eduardo Ladislao -- Criticism and interpretation
Holmberg, Eduardo Ladislao. Viaje maravilloso del señor Nic-Nac al planeta Marte.
Miralles, Francisco, 1837- -- Criticism and interpretation
Miralles, Francisco, 1837- Desde Júpiter
Castera, Pedro, 1838-1906 -- Criticism and interpretation
Castera, Pedro, 1838-1906. Querens.
SUBJECT Castera, Pedro, 1838-1906. Querens
Castera, Pedro, 1838-1906 -- Criticism and interpretation
Miralles, Francisco, 1837-. Desde Júpiter
Miralles, Francisco, 1837- -- Criticism and interpretation
Holmberg, Eduardo Ladislao. Viaje maravilloso del señor Nic-Nac al planeta Marte
Holmberg, Eduardo Ladislao -- Criticism and interpretation
Castera, Pedro, 1838-1906 fast
Holmberg, Eduardo Ladislao fast
Subject Science fiction, Spanish American -- History and criticism
Occultism in literature.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Caribbean & Latin American.
Occultism in literature
Science fiction, Spanish American
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469641706
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9781469641713
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