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Science Fusion in Contemporary Mexican Literature examines how Mexican authors use scientific knowledge and conceptual analogues to address issues in biopolitics, historiography, metaphysics, ethics, and ecological crisis in the age of the Anthropocene. By blending science and literature, these works reposition the human and offer fresh perspectives to address present-day sociocultural and environmental issues.
List of contents
A Note on Translations
Introduction: Entangling Science, Literature, and Culture in Mexico
1 Entangled Matter: The Science Poetry of Alberto Blanco
2 Quantum Mechanics, History, and the Question of Scale in Volpi's En busca de Klingsor
3 Automatons, Androids, and Androcentrism in Padilla's El androide y otras quimeras
4 A Science of Good and Evil: Sabina Berman's Darwinian Ethical Turn
5 In Search of a New Language: Autopoiesis and the Anthropocene in Maricela Guerrero's El sueño de toda célula
6 Dimensions of Embodied Experience: Space and Time in Elisa Díaz Castelo's Principia
Conclusions: Knowing and Belonging in an Entangled Universe
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Brian T. Chandler is a professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His work has been published in edited volumes and journals such as
Romance Quarterly,
Latin American Literary Review,
Hispania, and
Chasqui.
