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?
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