Erick Mota writes about the future after your world has ended

SFRA 2024: This paper discusses the strategies used by Erick Mota in his Habana Underguater (2010) to process the economic and political effects of the Berlin Wall fall (1989) on the collective Cuban psyche, positing that this crisis affected the idea of national unity and expectations of collective progress, and its association with European ideals of modernity and implicit social whitening.

Cuban-made Socialist Paradise?

Paper for ACLA 2024 Annual Meeting This paper proposes a critical reading of Cuban Science Fiction literature between 1959 and 1989, focusing on its problematic relation with Utopia. For almost forty years, the USSR's conventions and cultural policies regarding the genre strongly influenced Cuban science fiction. Yet, Cubans never managed to write Utopias or even happy socialist worlds.

Una lista de libros de ciencia ficción cubana

Estoy escribiendo la introducción de mi disertación por estos días y tuve que sumergirme en esta lista de libros del género que he ido compilando. El objetivo no es ser exhaustiva. Esta lista de volúmenes se armó para poner en orden las citas de material crítico sobre la ciencia ficción cubana. Me interesan por sus prólogos, introducciones o notas de contracubierta.