South of the Future

Anindita Banerjee is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and chair of the humanities concentration in the Environment and Sustainability Program at Cornell University. Her most recent book is Science Fiction Circuits of the South and East. Debra A. Castillo is Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Latina/o Studies Program at Cornell University. She is the author or editor of several books, including Redreaming America: Toward a Bilingual American Culture, also published by SUNY Press.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Life and Care from South of the FutureAnindita Banerjee and Debra A. Castillo1. From Intercountry Adoption in Guatemala to Commercial Global Surrogacy in Gujarat and Beyond: Lessons Learned from Research and Human RightsKaren Smith Rotabi2. On Cruelty and Care: Motherhood and the Crisis of FuturityKumkum Sangari3. Promissory Futures: Medicine and Markets in Speculative FictionSherryl Vint4.The Surrogacy Public Interest Litigation in the Indian Supreme Court: Marginalizing the MarginalizedSital Kalantry5. Wet Nurses and Migrant Nanas in Mexico's Imaginary LandscapeEmily C. Vázquez Enríquez6. Structures of Affect in Transactions of Care: From Surrogacy Discourses of the Womb to Mahasweta Devi's "Breast-Giver"Kavita Panjabi7. Artificial Bodies: The Politics of the Posthuman in Argentine Science Fiction NovelsSilvia G. Kurlat Ares8. Unbearable Futures: The Science/Fiction of Care Markets in the Global SouthAnindita Banerjee and Debra A. CastilloContributorsIndex

"While there have been studies on the individual countries featured in the book, there are no previous studies that bridge the gaps between South Asia and the Americas in terms of speculative fiction or in terms of care policy. The comparative aspect for these regions is new, and the introduction of chapters dealing with different kinds of speculative futures is a welcome addition." — Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, University of Oslo"This is a groundbreaking volume for several reasons. The interdisciplinary collection of social sciences and humanities creates a compelling argument for understanding how literary and anthropological studies can enrich each other. I applaud how it puts the various regions of the global south into productive conversation." — J. Andrew Brown, Washington University in St. Louis