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Decolonial Speculative Fiction

by Miasol Eguíbar-Holgado
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781032895826
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 244
  • Original Price: GBP 171.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 495 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

Decolonial Speculative Fiction provides an analytical framework for situating speculative narratives from the margins. It approaches texts from literary movements made subaltern through processes of colonization and coloniality: Afrofuturism, Indigenous futurism, Latinx futurism, and Latin American speculative fiction.

Works from these traditions often rest on paradigms and systems of meaning-making that differ from hegemonic (Euro-Western) notions of reality. As a result, speculative genres undergo profound transformations at the levels of both form and content. While recognizing the historicities of the different literary backgrounds, the book identifies common patterns in the representation of alternative spatio-temporalities, epistemologies, and politics of being in these speculative contexts. Some of these patterns include disruptions of historical timelines and a (post)apocalyptic imagination that transcends the figurative; centring Indigenous epistemologies to code and decode speculative genres; or the subversive position that racialized/gendered/sexualized others have vis-�-vis monsters and monstrosity.

A dialogical study of these aspects reveals how decolonial speculative fiction envisions otherwise worlds that confound boundaries between fantasy and reality; possible and impossible; past, present, and future.

Miasol Eguíbar-Holgado is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Oviedo in Spain. Her research interests include postcolonial/decolonial theory, diasporic writing, and decolonial speculative fiction, especially Afrofuturism and Indigenous futurism. She has published extensively in such prominent journals as Canadian Literature, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, or Extrapolation. She is part of the Research Group “Intersections: Contemporary Literatures, Cultures, and Theories” at the University of Oviedo.

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