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Cover
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beyond the West and the Rest: Science Fiction Circuits of the South and East (Anindita Banerjee / Sonja Fritzs)
Organization
Conclusion
Bibliography
Part I: An Other Transatlantic
1 T/Racing Revolution between Red October and the
Black Atlantic (Anindita Banerjee)
Bodies as Languages, or the Kinship of R/Evolution
Alien Invasions, or Pushkin Beyond Poetry
Russia’s Afrofuturism, or Double-Tonguing Revolution
Bibliography
2 Eugenia: Engineering New Citizens in Mexico’s Laboratory
of Socialism (Miguel García)
Introduction: Mexican Science Fiction
The Novel
Eugenics and Science Fiction
Urzaiz and Eugenics
Socialism in the Yucatán
Eugenic Revolution
Socialism, Democracy, and Communism
The Voice of Communism
Race: The Fear of Miscegenation
Eugenia and Biopolitics
Bibliography
3 Between Moscow and Santa Clara: Thee Soviet-Cuban Imaginary in Agustín de Rojas’ Espiral (1980) (Antonio Cordoba)
East to South Circuits
Espiral and Circuits in the Global South
Bibliography
Part II: Transnationalism behind the Iron Curtain
4 Alien Evolution and Dialectical Materialism in Eastern
European Science Fiction (Carl Gelderloos)
Evolution as Beautiful Convergence in Andromeda Nebula (1957)
Knowledge, Evolution, and Alterity in Solaris (1961)
Labor, Terraforming, and a “New Cosmic Genus” in Andymon (1982)
Conclusion: SF, Evolution, and Two Evaluations of Dialectical Materialism
Bibliography
5 A Natural and Arti cial Homeland: East German Science
Fiction Film Responds to Kubrick and Tarkovsky (Sonja Fritzsche)
To Be a Socialist Human in Space
SF in an East German Context
Technology and the Future: Utopian Realism
Heimat Earth
The Price of Progress
Conclusion: The Meaning of Spring
Bibliography
6 Naming the Future in Translations of Russian and East
European Science Fiction (Sibelan Forrester)
Background: Socialism in Space
Naming the Alternative Present
Naming the Near Future
Naming the Distant Future
More on Names: Conveying Gender in SF
Bibliography
Part III: Asymptotic Easts and Subterranean Souths
7 Ghana-da in Bandung: Race, Science, and Non-Alignment
in Premendra Mitra’s Fiction (Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee)
Bandung Colors
The “World” and the “Post-Colonial”
“Non-Aligned” Science
72 Banamali Naskar Lane
Bibliography
8 The Afterlife of the Post-Apocalypse: Dmitry
Glukhovsky in China (Jinyi Chu)
When Utopia Becomes Nostalgia
Translating the Post-Apocalypse in the Age of Globalization and Transmediality
Vicarious Creation
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index