Altermundos by Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson

Fighting against the dominant racist, imperialist narrative of Latin America, the United States, and even their own US Latinx communities, these artists imagine a unified, powerful, and decolonized Latinx America. Altermundos : Latin speculative literature, film, and popular culture by Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson and B. Through hip-hop, these artists engage with a larger movement of Latinx Futurism, using science fiction as a means of consciousness raising and decolonialization, much as creators of Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurism have done. Rather than including explicitly science fictional tropes, Latinx Futurist hip-hop engages with Afrofuturist ontologies to construct a unifying, utopian vision of Latinidad in the United States. Like Jay-Z, Latinx hip-hop artists such as Cypress Hill, Pitbull, Calle 13, and Los Rakas draw from the rich tradition of Afrofuturism, but more indirectly. Mainstream Afrofuturist hip-hop artists, such as Jay-Z in his 2018 “Family Feud” music video (directed by Ava DuVernay), employ common tropes from science fiction, placing Afrofuturist hip-hop firmly within the genre. Music has long been one of the mainstays of Afrofuturism and much Afrofuturist music is directly science fictional. Read Our Open Access Books and Journals.Publishing Open Access Journal Articles.Writers and Their Work: The Digital Collection The same year, 2017, saw the publication of Altermundos: Latin Speculative Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture, edited by Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson and B.V.Transnational Modern Languages Digital Collection /rebates/2fAltermundos-Latin-Speculative-Literature-Film-and-Popular-Culture2fbook2f34263744&.Translated Texts for Historians E-Library.Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment ONLINE.Opening the Future - Modern Languages Package.

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Altermundos by Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson