Altermundos

Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture

Speculative fiction—encompassing both science fiction and fantasy—has emerged as a dynamic field within Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, producing new critical vocabularies and approaches to topics that include colonialism and modernity, immigration and globalization, race and gender. The first collection engaging Chicana/o and Latina/o speculative cultural production, Altermundos provides a comprehensive alternative to the view of speculative fiction as a largely white, male, Eurocentric, and heteronormative genre. It features original essays from more than twenty-five scholars as well as interviews, manifestos, short fiction, and new works from Chicana/o and Latina/o artists.

Contributors

Daoine S. Bachran

Cordelia E. Barrera

Gregg Barrios

William A. Calvo-Quirós

Natalia Deeb-Sossa

José R. Flores

Matthew David Goodwin

Luz María Gordillo

Michelle Habell-Pallán

Linda Heidenreich

Robb Hernández

Ernest Hogan

Joe Jiménez

Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson

Isabel Millán

Gabriela Nuñez

B. V. Olguín

William Orchard

Amalia Ortiz

Margarita E. Pignataro

Catherine S. Ramírez

Susana Ramírez

Lysa Rivera

Cynthia Saldivar

John Phillip Santos

Shelley Streeby

Andrew Uzendoski

Luis Valderas

Debora Kuetzpal Vasquez

Susy J. Zepeda