A Paradigm of the Tropical: Brazil in Contemporary Anglo-American Science Fiction and Fantasy.
This essay analyzes contemporary science fiction and fantasy novels about Brazil written by Anglo-American authors using the paradigm of the "lost-race novel." This provides a way to understand the mappings of these texts in order to question some of their premises as they create an image, often rev...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 316 - 335 |
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University of California Press
Jul2013
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