come on up to the house: desliz: I really, really like this article on Mexican sf/fantasy,...
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“The omnipresence of the supernatural in Mexican/Mexican-American culture, and perhaps Latin America as a whole, is less about religiosity than a very specific way of dealing with colonialism, racism, machismo, poverty, and other such forces.”
I really, really like this article on Mexican sf/fantasy, because it helps articulate how I use the genre myself. I am fundamentally incapable of writing a story where unrealistic things happen just because it’s fun to speculate. That’s my boyfriend’s passion, and I find absolutely…
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ESSENTIAL READING
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I might just have to check this out when I get some money, because this sounds like the kind of Sci-Fi I’d really like....
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added to the list of things i will buy with the tax refund…. yes I’m a nerd and I still love reading stuff.
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Why was the argentine writer Borges mentioned in the first paragraph of this article about mexican science fiction..? :\...
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Tumblr cuts off the quote I wanna emphasize but YES OH YES TO THIS: “The omnipresence of the supernatural in...
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An article worth checking, dealing with the “technological” evolution of magic realism. This also reminded me of that...
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Dali, on Mexico:
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