Futurism and genre genesis in Brazilian science fiction

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https://doi.org/10.34019/2236-8191.2021.v8.36736

Abstract

The recent emergence of futurism movements seeking agency over the imagination of the future often has the communities of readers and writers of science fiction as one of its pillars. Its proponents seek to stake their claim on a new movement by mobilizing the SF community and the memory work of fandom but whether they can achieve enough critical mass to enact broader collective action is uncertain. Taking as example the sertãopunk subgenre of Brazilian SF, this paper will discuss the internal coloniality of Brazilian regionalism that resulted in the creation of a spatial identity for the northeast region now being challenged, before arguing that political intent is merging with genre intervention to form one infrastructure of futurism.

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Author Biography

Patrick Brock, University of Oslo

Patrick Brock is a doctoral research fellow with the CoFutures group led by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay and funded by the European Research Council. His research focuses on Latin American science fiction and futurism as both engines of genre creation and social movements. Patrick holds a degree in journalism from the Federal  University of Bahia (Brazil) and an MA in English Literature from CUNY, and has worked as an editor, foreign correspondent, and translator. He has also published two books of short stories and been featured in literature anthologies in Brazil.

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Published

2022-03-21