MONSTERCLASS PostColonialism Fabio Fernandes Fair Warning This is

MONSTERCLASS: Post-Colonialism Fabio Fernandes

Fair Warning:

This is not a lecture

This is not a preaching

This is a talk about what was…

Cosmos Latinos, 2003

Authors of the past (most of whom maybe you never heard of): Juan Nepomuceno Adorno (Mexico) Miguel de Unamuno (Spain) Ángel Arango (Cuba) Jerônimo Monteiro (Brazil) Pablo Capanna (Argentina) Hugo Correa (Chile) Angélica Gorodischer (Argentina) André Carneiro (Brazil)

about what is…

So Long Been Dreaming, 2004

Authors of the present (some of whom you probably must have heard of): Nisi Shawl Andrea Hairston Nnedi Okorafor Vandana Singh Karin Lowachee Tobias S. Buckell

about what is just beginning…

We See a Different Frontier, 2013

Long Hidden, 2014

Women Destroy Science Fiction, 2014

The Apex Book of World Sf, Vols 1, 2 and 3 (2010, 2012, 2014)

Some of the fresh new authors you must know: Berit Ellingsen Benjanun Sriduengkaew Sofia Samatar J Y Yang Nalin Ratnayake Usman T. Malik

Vengeance? Revenge? Retribution?

Or a new narrative?

History is written by the victors (commonly attributed to Winston Churchill)

Everything is political Every stance is political – even standing aside

The white male savior complex: From James Hilton’s Lost Horizon to Bong Joonho’s Snowpiercer

what next?