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Papers by Rachel Haywood
The Cambridge History of Science Fiction, 2018
The Cambridge History of Science Fiction, 2019
CentraI to The Other Trans-Atlantic is the contention that kinetic art was a species of realism, ... more CentraI to The Other Trans-Atlantic is the contention that kinetic art was a species of realism, reflecting the new socioeconomic realities emerging in the geographies considered by our project. In seeking to test the hypothesis that the pervasive curiosity, if not enthusiasm, for science and technology, as refracted through the lens of innovative artistic practices, led to the embrace of optical and kinetic forms, we,the editors, wondered if we might find correlating interests in other artistic languages and cultural forms. In trying to understand the way in which these forces (industrialization, scientific discovery, etc) changed everyday life and therefore shaped visual culture, we happened"pan two books, We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity by Anindita Banerjee and The Emergence of Lain American Science Fiction by Rachel Haywood Ferreira. It became clear that kinetic and Op artists were applying in the visual field what Science fiction write...
This essay examines three of the earliest works of Latin American sf together for the first time:... more This essay examines three of the earliest works of Latin American sf together for the first time: "Mexico en el ano 1970" [Mexico in the Year 1970, 1844, Mexico], Pdginas da historia do Brasil escripta no anno de 2000 [Pages from the History of Brazil Written in the Year 2000, 1868-72, Brazil], and Viaje maravilloso del Senor Nic-Nac al planeta Marte [The Marvelous Journey of Mr. Nic-Nac to the Planet Mars, 1875-76, Argentina]. Nineteenth-century works such as these have been added to the genealogical tree of Latin American sf in recent years. The addition of pre-space-age texts to the corpus of Latin American sf does more than provide its writers and readers with local roots: it broadens our understanding of the genre in Latin America and the periphery; it extends our perceptions of the role of science in Latin American literature and culture; and, together with later Latin American sf, it contributes new perspectives and new narrative possibilities to the genre as a whol...
Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 2013
Science Fiction Studies, 2016
Latin America saved the world—and didn't—many times over in texts written in the 1950s, t... more Latin America saved the world—and didn't—many times over in texts written in the 1950s, the incubation period for genre sf in the region. The forward-looking 1950s produced much source material for today's retrofuturist longings, rather than generating many of those longings of their own. This article draws from some twenty-five fictional works by Latin American authors published in the Argentine magazine Más Allá [Beyond], an affiliate of Galaxy Science Fiction, between 1953 and 1957. I'm interested in exploring these past images of the future to think about questions such as to whom the future belonged in Latin American sf, what those futures looked like, and which of those past futures we are—and are not—living in today and why. I'm especially interested in how Latin American writers did—and didn't—challenge Northern assumptions about the future and about the genre and in the impact this has had on subsequent genre writers and readers. Download the full-text at http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/language_pubs/105/.
Latin American Science Fiction, 2012
When speaking of Héctor Germán Oesterheld and his Eternautas series of comics, we are speaking of... more When speaking of Héctor Germán Oesterheld and his Eternautas series of comics, we are speaking of multiple and interlocking levels of icons. Oesterheld first began the historieta [comic] about the time-traveling Juan Salvo, known as the "Eternauta," in the late 1950s, later revisiting it in the 1960s and 1970s. In the three Eternauta narratives in question,1 a group of intrepid technologically savvy individuals struggle against a deadly phosphorescent snowfall and a series of alien species only to have the news of their local victory obliterated by nuclear devastation and alien treachery. Attempts to avoid this near-future reality for Buenos Aires and/or the reconstruction of the city occupy the later installments of the series. This chapterwill examine the evolution of Oesterheld's use of science fiction (SF) icons within the Eternauta narratives over three decades in order to discuss the cultural assumptions underlying the sf genre, Argentine attitudes toward technology, sf and political strife, and national and global power dynamics.
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Mar 22, 2008
Extrapolation, Jun 22, 2010
... of Latin American Science Fiction (1953–59) RACHEL HAYWOOD FERREIRA ... Page 2. 282 Rachel Ha... more ... of Latin American Science Fiction (1953–59) RACHEL HAYWOOD FERREIRA ... Page 2. 282 Rachel Haywood Ferreira of the genre, Pablo Capanna, cite El Eternauta as one of the greatest works, if not the greatest work, of sf produced in that country (Capanna). ...
The Anuário Brasileiro de Literatura Fantástica: Ficçao científica, fantasia e horror no Brasil e... more The Anuário Brasileiro de Literatura Fantástica: Ficçao científica, fantasia e horror no Brasil em 2005 (Directory of Brazilian Fantastic Literature: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror in Brazil in 2005) l is the second volume in a projected five-volume series of reference books to be dated
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 2007
This essay extends Bud Foote's theory of a link between geographical and temporal travel in North... more This essay extends Bud Foote's theory of a link between geographical and temporal travel in Northern science fiction to include the science fiction of the Southern hemisphere. It examines two tales of marvelous overland journeys that were set in the Latin America of the day but which represented travel to the nations' natural, historical, and cultural pasts: the Brazilian Augusto Emflio Zaluar's 0 Doutor Benignus (Docwr Bemgnu.s) and the Argentine Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg's Dos partidos en lucha: Fan, wsw cientifica (livo Factions Struggle for Life: A Scientific Fantasy). Despite marked dissmiliarities between the backgrounds and world views of their writers, these two novels hare common influences and deal with themes of scientific and pseudoscientific uses of evolutionary theories, national progress through the spread of scientific knowledge, and the representation of South America as the locus for a utopian future.
Science Fiction Studies, 2012
Globalization and science fiction are reflected-and refracted-in the globalization of science fic... more Globalization and science fiction are reflected-and refracted-in the globalization of science fiction. Much of my work on early Latin American sf has examined the great degree to which science fiction is and has long been a global genre, read and written around the world, forming a planet-spanning continuity-or, to use Damien Broderick's terminology, a "megatext web" made up of "collective intertextualit[ies]" ("Megatext," The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Online. 18 Aug. 2012). Yet I am constantly tripping over ways in which sf is not global or at least not so global as I had unconsciously slipped into assuming it was.
The Cambridge History of Science Fiction, 2018
The Cambridge History of Science Fiction, 2019
CentraI to The Other Trans-Atlantic is the contention that kinetic art was a species of realism, ... more CentraI to The Other Trans-Atlantic is the contention that kinetic art was a species of realism, reflecting the new socioeconomic realities emerging in the geographies considered by our project. In seeking to test the hypothesis that the pervasive curiosity, if not enthusiasm, for science and technology, as refracted through the lens of innovative artistic practices, led to the embrace of optical and kinetic forms, we,the editors, wondered if we might find correlating interests in other artistic languages and cultural forms. In trying to understand the way in which these forces (industrialization, scientific discovery, etc) changed everyday life and therefore shaped visual culture, we happened"pan two books, We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity by Anindita Banerjee and The Emergence of Lain American Science Fiction by Rachel Haywood Ferreira. It became clear that kinetic and Op artists were applying in the visual field what Science fiction write...
This essay examines three of the earliest works of Latin American sf together for the first time:... more This essay examines three of the earliest works of Latin American sf together for the first time: "Mexico en el ano 1970" [Mexico in the Year 1970, 1844, Mexico], Pdginas da historia do Brasil escripta no anno de 2000 [Pages from the History of Brazil Written in the Year 2000, 1868-72, Brazil], and Viaje maravilloso del Senor Nic-Nac al planeta Marte [The Marvelous Journey of Mr. Nic-Nac to the Planet Mars, 1875-76, Argentina]. Nineteenth-century works such as these have been added to the genealogical tree of Latin American sf in recent years. The addition of pre-space-age texts to the corpus of Latin American sf does more than provide its writers and readers with local roots: it broadens our understanding of the genre in Latin America and the periphery; it extends our perceptions of the role of science in Latin American literature and culture; and, together with later Latin American sf, it contributes new perspectives and new narrative possibilities to the genre as a whol...
Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 2013
Science Fiction Studies, 2016
Latin America saved the world—and didn't—many times over in texts written in the 1950s, t... more Latin America saved the world—and didn't—many times over in texts written in the 1950s, the incubation period for genre sf in the region. The forward-looking 1950s produced much source material for today's retrofuturist longings, rather than generating many of those longings of their own. This article draws from some twenty-five fictional works by Latin American authors published in the Argentine magazine Más Allá [Beyond], an affiliate of Galaxy Science Fiction, between 1953 and 1957. I'm interested in exploring these past images of the future to think about questions such as to whom the future belonged in Latin American sf, what those futures looked like, and which of those past futures we are—and are not—living in today and why. I'm especially interested in how Latin American writers did—and didn't—challenge Northern assumptions about the future and about the genre and in the impact this has had on subsequent genre writers and readers. Download the full-text at http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/language_pubs/105/.
Latin American Science Fiction, 2012
When speaking of Héctor Germán Oesterheld and his Eternautas series of comics, we are speaking of... more When speaking of Héctor Germán Oesterheld and his Eternautas series of comics, we are speaking of multiple and interlocking levels of icons. Oesterheld first began the historieta [comic] about the time-traveling Juan Salvo, known as the "Eternauta," in the late 1950s, later revisiting it in the 1960s and 1970s. In the three Eternauta narratives in question,1 a group of intrepid technologically savvy individuals struggle against a deadly phosphorescent snowfall and a series of alien species only to have the news of their local victory obliterated by nuclear devastation and alien treachery. Attempts to avoid this near-future reality for Buenos Aires and/or the reconstruction of the city occupy the later installments of the series. This chapterwill examine the evolution of Oesterheld's use of science fiction (SF) icons within the Eternauta narratives over three decades in order to discuss the cultural assumptions underlying the sf genre, Argentine attitudes toward technology, sf and political strife, and national and global power dynamics.
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Mar 22, 2008
Extrapolation, Jun 22, 2010
... of Latin American Science Fiction (1953–59) RACHEL HAYWOOD FERREIRA ... Page 2. 282 Rachel Ha... more ... of Latin American Science Fiction (1953–59) RACHEL HAYWOOD FERREIRA ... Page 2. 282 Rachel Haywood Ferreira of the genre, Pablo Capanna, cite El Eternauta as one of the greatest works, if not the greatest work, of sf produced in that country (Capanna). ...
The Anuário Brasileiro de Literatura Fantástica: Ficçao científica, fantasia e horror no Brasil e... more The Anuário Brasileiro de Literatura Fantástica: Ficçao científica, fantasia e horror no Brasil em 2005 (Directory of Brazilian Fantastic Literature: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror in Brazil in 2005) l is the second volume in a projected five-volume series of reference books to be dated
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 2007
This essay extends Bud Foote's theory of a link between geographical and temporal travel in North... more This essay extends Bud Foote's theory of a link between geographical and temporal travel in Northern science fiction to include the science fiction of the Southern hemisphere. It examines two tales of marvelous overland journeys that were set in the Latin America of the day but which represented travel to the nations' natural, historical, and cultural pasts: the Brazilian Augusto Emflio Zaluar's 0 Doutor Benignus (Docwr Bemgnu.s) and the Argentine Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg's Dos partidos en lucha: Fan, wsw cientifica (livo Factions Struggle for Life: A Scientific Fantasy). Despite marked dissmiliarities between the backgrounds and world views of their writers, these two novels hare common influences and deal with themes of scientific and pseudoscientific uses of evolutionary theories, national progress through the spread of scientific knowledge, and the representation of South America as the locus for a utopian future.
Science Fiction Studies, 2012
Globalization and science fiction are reflected-and refracted-in the globalization of science fic... more Globalization and science fiction are reflected-and refracted-in the globalization of science fiction. Much of my work on early Latin American sf has examined the great degree to which science fiction is and has long been a global genre, read and written around the world, forming a planet-spanning continuity-or, to use Damien Broderick's terminology, a "megatext web" made up of "collective intertextualit[ies]" ("Megatext," The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Online. 18 Aug. 2012). Yet I am constantly tripping over ways in which sf is not global or at least not so global as I had unconsciously slipped into assuming it was.