Caribbean Futurism and Beyond - Conversations With Writers of Folklore, Fantasy, Science,

It is a tripartite combination of interviews with writers of the speculative fiction, genre, literary and cultural analysis of those interviews within the context of seven discrete yet overlapping dimensions: folklore, mythology, children's and young adult literature, science, technology, climate disaster, and identity

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Preface

1. Ethnographies of the Future: Caribbean Futurism in Literature and Theory
2. Folkloric Futures
3. Syncretic Mythologies
4. Growing Futures: Children's and Young Adult Literature
5. Narrating Health from bush medicine to bioscience
6. Technologies of thought
7. Climate Justice and Disasters
8. Fractal Identity Formations

Epilogue: Caribbean Futurism: An Unfinished Product
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Jarrel De Matas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities. He studies culturally informed scientific, medical, and health practices through an intersectional approach to Caribbean science fiction and science and technology studies. He is also interested in policy development for developing countries especially, but not limited to, the Caribbean. In addition to his academic work, De Matas is a newspaper columnist and his first book, a collection of columns written during 2023, is titled Opinions in Review: 2023.

Product details

• Authors: Jarrel De Matas
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032733081
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3273308-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, Caribbean islands, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature