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Routledge Handbook of Latinx Visions

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Gothic, and Horror

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

AvMatthew David Goodwin,Cathryn Merla-Watson,Taryne Jade Taylor

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The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Visions captures the extraordinary boom in Latinx speculative texts from the early 2010s through the mid-2020s, a creative explosion rivalling the Latin American literary Boom of the 1960s and 70s. This unique aesthetic genre continuously expands its boundaries, embracing new voices, geographies, and themes in response to world-altering crises: the global pandemic, racialized violence, anti-immigrant rhetoric, apocalyptic climate disasters, rising fascism, and state-sanctioned oppression. These transformative events have reshaped contemporary consciousness, making the speculative turn in Latinx cultural production both urgent and necessary as artists reimagine existence beyond oppressive realities.The handbook critically theorizes, archives, and takes stock of this dynamic speculative corpus while charting pathways for future scholarly inquiry. It explores how Latinx cultural producers speculate – contemplating, radically envisioning, and 'hallucinating' alternative futures interlaced with historical and present conditions. Examining new texts, subgenres, critical frameworks, and innovative approaches, the handbook maps the ever-growing terrain of Latinx speculative studies, documenting this pivotal cultural moment while encouraging scholarship that generates fresh insights for understanding how marginalized communities imagine liberation, resistance, and transformation through speculative storytelling.Part of the Studies in Global Genre Fiction series, this handbook will interest scholars and enthusiasts of Literary and Cultural Studies, Latinx Studies, Science Fiction Studies, Latin American Literature, and Post-Colonial Studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-12-09
Mått174 x 246 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Global Genre Fiction
Antal sidor596
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041263951

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Matthew David Goodwin is an Associate Professor in the Chicana/o Studies Department at the University of New Mexico. His research is centered on Chicanx/Latinx science fiction and Critical Mystery Studies. He is a co-editor of the Latinx Archive speculative fiction trilogy: Latinx Rising, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, and Not Your Papi’s Utopia. He has a PhD in Comparative Literature from UMASS Amherst, and is an active agent in the very much real Speculative Detective Agency.Cathryn Merla-Watson is an Associate Professor in Literatures and Cultural Studies at the University of Texas, Río Grande Valley. She is the co-editor of Altermundos: Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film (2017), which won the Before Columbus American Book Award and won first place for the Best Cover Illustration at the 2017 International Latino Book Awards.Taryne Jade Taylor is an Associate Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Florida Atlantic University. Taylor is the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook to CoFuturisms with Grace Dillon, Isiah Lavender III, and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay as well as the The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Visions with Matthew David Goodwin and Cathryn Merla-Watson. Her research focuses on the politics of representation in speculative fiction, particularly Latinx futurisms and feminist sf. Taylor is currently working on her monograph on Latinx Futurisms which is forthcoming from the New Suns Series at Ohio State University Press.

List of figures. List of contributors. Foreword - Lysa Rivera. Acknowledgements. Introduction: The Restorative Pessimism of the Latinx Speculative Arts. PART I: Constellating Genres, Mediums, and World-Making Across the Latinx Speculative Arts. 1. Latinx Fantasy: Redefining Genre Boundaries and History. 2. Sites and Frights of Latinx Gothic and Horror. 3. The Many Transmutations of Latinx Science Fiction. PART II: Speculative Countercurrents, Undercurrents, and Nuevas Ondas. 4. Gender, Sex, and Viral Mestizajes in Ernest Hogan's High Aztech. 5. Visions of Latinidad, Happily Ever After: Romance as a Speculative Genre. 6. Facing the Future: The Blue Men and Green Queens of Chicanx Art. 7. Beyond Afrofuturism: Rasquache Probing and Caribbean Speculative Literature. 8. Latinx Speculative Historical Materialism: The Petite Bourgeois Turn in Latinx Studies and Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita's Post-Latinx Marxist Revolutionary Synthesis. 9. ¡Latinxfuturism Ahora!: A Digital Artifact Defining the First U.S. Latinx Science Fiction Collection. 10. An Invitation to the Nagual Choir: A Manifesto of the Unitalicized. PART III: Other Routes of Terror and Horror. 11. Revolutionizing Horror: A Conversation with Richard Gamboa on the Making of BRUJOS. 12. Strangely Familiar: Reanimation and Justice in Black and Latinx Reimaginings of Frankenstein. 13. Gothic Inversion in Victor LaValle's The Ballad of Black Tom and Silvia Garcia-Moreno's The Daughter of Dr. Moreau. 14. Film, Folklore, and Mexican American Horror: A Dialogue with Miguel "Mickey" Martinez. 15. Monstruos Pequeños, Grandes Ideologías: Transformational Consciousness and Subjectivity in Latinx Adolescent Literature. 16. An Ode to Chuecas y Monstras and Other Tejana-Border Goth Personas. 17. What Makes a Mestiza Desirable? Desire and the Juxtapolitical Gothic in Silvia Moreno-García's Mexican Gothic. 18. Telenovela Horror: Gothic Rewritings in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic and Isabel Cañas' The Hacienda. PART IV: Latinx Revelations. 19. A Conversation with Celeste De Luna: Chicanafuturism and Etching Spaces for Tejanxs. 20. Why to Preserve a Wild Economy, Or, A Double Apocalypse of UN Ocean Policy. 21. Disasters and Decolonization: Carlos Raquel Rivera's Visual Art and Imagining Puerto Rico's Future. 22. City of Me: A Millennial Chicano Reflection on Fashioned Memory & Zoot-suited Spectres in Penny Dreadful: City of Angels. 23. "To think otherwise would be absurd": Decolonization and Narrative Recuperation in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic. 24. Revolutions are Built on Hope: A Critical Examination of Cassian Andor in the Trump Era. 25. "We've always been writing": An Interview with Donna Barba Higuera on Latinx Teen and Kid Lit. 26. "Moving past the narratives they expect of us": A Conversation with Richie Narvaez. Part V: Latinx Time-Play and the Speculative Present. 27. This Place, in Time: Letter to a Friend in Days Unknown. 28. Time Travel as Recuperation of Slave Histories in Mayra Santos-Febres' Fe en disfraz. 29. Visual Pláticas: La Galaxia Tortilla. 30. On Unspeakability: A Conversation with Ilan Stavans. 31. The Perform-antics of Cosmic Citizenship in Project MASA5.5. 32. Dungeons, Dragons, and the Duende. 33. An Auto-Speculative Odyssey. Part VI: A Lo Rasquache: Strange New Technologies. 34. Speculative Shakespeare and the Queer, Trans, Chicanx Futurity of Gregg Barrios's I-DJ. 35. Rasquache Futures and Latinx Cinema: A Conversation with Alex Rivera. 36. Eco-Tech Horizons: Liberation and Future Visions in Daizee & the Dukes Exploring Chicanafuturism at the Borderlands. 37. Julio Torres: Reflections on Latinx Futurism and the Surreal Late-Stage Capitalist Hellscape Imaginary. 38. Speculative Borders in Fernando A. Flores's Tears of a Trufflepig and Pedro Cabiya's "The Clarification Oral History Project". 39. Latinx Futurisms as Pedagogy: Speculative Design for Justice-Oriented Technological Futures. 40. Flesh/Earth/Cosmos: John Jairo Valencia's Matriarchal Memory ss Xicanafuturism. 41. Lunar Braceros: 2125-2148 and the History of the Future: An Interview with Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita. Part VII: CoFutures in the Pluriverse. 42. "Something Old, Some Place New": Caribbean Speculative Narratives in Short Form. 43. Awakening from 'Old West dreams': Tradaptation, Latinx Utopian Futurity, and the Weird Western in Anaya's Shaman Winter. 44. Fronteras del Futuro: Art in New Mexico and Beyond. 45. Daring to Exist: A Trans Latinx/Indigenous Fairy Tale. 46. Health Futurism: Tentacle as a Form of Stakeholder Engagement to Improve Transgender Health Care in the Caribbean. 47. Assembling Empire: Biopower, Necroforce, and the Colonial Body in Alexandro Segade's The Context. 48. Drop Dead Catrina: Queer Performance and Latinx Visions in the Río Grande Valley. 49. Old Body, Old City, Old Soul: Queer Trans Utopia and Latinxfuturism. 50. Decolonial Futurities in Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older and Never Look Back by Lilliam Rivera. Afterword - Chicago Dreamers and Michael Zapata. Index.