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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, October 04, 2024 2:00 pm to 3:30 
 pm \n Victoria College 115 \n 91 Charles St. West, first floor \n\nSpeake
 rs \nEmily A. Maguire \n\nDescription: \nWe are proud to welcome professor
  Emily A. Maguire for a visit to our Department. Please join us for an inv
 ited lecture on the growth of science fiction in the Hispanophone Caribbea
 n literature.About the Presentation The last two decades have seen a remar
 kable rise in both the presence and visibility of science fiction in the c
 ultural production of the Hispanophone Caribbean. While some science ficti
 on narratives introduce new worlds or envision radically different future 
 environments, many recent science fiction texts from the Caribbean extrap
 olate from the particularities of contemporary experience. Why have Caribb
 ean creators gravitated to science fiction as a mode of storytelling for t
 his moment? Arguing that science fiction provides a new language with whic
 h Caribbean writers critique present conditions, this talk explores how r
 ecent Caribbean narratives use science fiction as a tool to destabilize na
 rrative temporality. The future possible intervenes in Caribbean texts to 
 highlight temporal stagnation, to make visible outmoded systems that cont
 inue to operate in the present, to offer alternative visions of Caribbean
  reality (both utopian and dystopian), and to argue for new ways of envis
 ioning both socio-political futures and the literary canons on which natio
 nal identities and histories are built.About the Presenter Emily A. Maguir
 e is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at
  Northwestern University, where she specializes in literature of the Hisp
 anic Caribbean and its diasporas. She is the author of Racial Experiments 
 in Cuban Literature and Ethnography (2011) and Tropical Time Machines: Sci
 ence Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean (2024), and the co-ed
 itor, with Antonio Córdoba, of Posthumanism in Latin(x) American Science
  Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan 2022). Her articles have appeared in Revista 
 de Estudios Hispánicos, Small Axe, A Contracorriente, ASAP/Journal, an
 d Revista Iberoamericana, among other places. \n\nContact Information: \n
  Susan Antebi susan.antebi@utoronto.ca Department of Spanish & Portuguese 
 \n\nSponsors \nDepartment of Spanish & Portuguese, Centre for Caribbean S
 tudies, Centre for Comparative Literature \n91 Charles St. West, first f
 loor \n\nCategories \n Lectures and Conferences \n\nAudiences \n Latin Ame
 rican StudiesSpanish
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LOCATION:91 Charles St. West, first floor
SUMMARY:The Workings of Tropical Time Machines: Caribbean Science Fiction's
  Temporal Interventions
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