Mexican Women Writers of Science Fiction - The Post-Female Novum

This book is the first to offer an in-depth scholarly study of Mexican women writers of science fiction and highlight their innovative contributions to the growth and development of the genre in Mexico. By conducting close readings of twenty short stories authored by Mexican women from the 1950s to the present, Manickam reveals what women writers can do with science fiction that they cannot with "more traditional genres", what new paradigms of female agency are apparent in science fiction, and the insights science fiction provide us regarding Mexican women's negotiations with modernity. In so doing, he demonstrates how Mexican women writers reimagine traditional icons of science fiction to creatively explore what it means to be a modern woman relinquishing traditional feminine roles to enter new technology-informed domains once occupied almost solely by men.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction,- Chapter 2: Modern Metamorphoses of Motherhood.- Chapter 3: Fluid Extraterrestrial Identities.- Chapter 4: Evolutions of the Female Scientist.- Chapter 5: Final Words.

About the author

Samuel Manickam is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish at the University of North Texas, USA. He teaches classes on Mexican culture and literature, among other areas. His research area is in twentieth and twenty-first century Mexican narrative with a focus on science fiction and women writers.

Summary

This book is the first to offer an in-depth scholarly study of Mexican women writers of science fiction and highlight their innovative contributions to the growth and development of the genre in Mexico. By conducting close readings of twenty short stories authored by Mexican women from the 1950s to the present, Manickam reveals what women writers can do with science fiction that they cannot with "more traditional genres", what new paradigms of female agency are apparent in science fiction, and the insights science fiction provide us regarding Mexican women's negotiations with modernity. In so doing, he demonstrates how Mexican women writers reimagine traditional icons of science fiction to creatively explore what it means to be a modern woman relinquishing traditional feminine roles to enter new technology-informed domains once occupied almost solely by men.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Manickam
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.2025
• EAN: 9783031862816
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3186281-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 14 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 350 g
• Illustrations: XI, 184 p.
• Series: Studies in Global Science Fiction
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literaturtheorie, Amerika, Kulturwissenschaften, Gender Studies, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Gender Studies: Gruppen, Literaturwissenschaft: postkoloniale Literatur, Postcolonial Studies, Latin American Culture, Latin American/Caribbean Literature, Feminist Literary Theory, Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Mexican gender studies, Hispanic modernities, Hispanic women studies, Mexican women writers, Contemporary Mexican literature, Modern Mexican women, Mexican modernity, Hispanic cultural studies, Latin American women writers, Mexican Cultural Studies