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Even though science ficLon (SF) in Mexico has been mostly the domain of male writers, Mexican women writers have uLlized this genre to present innovaLve female idenLLes fizng for a modern society deeply informed by and built on science and technology. In this arLcle I analyze the representaLon of three icons of science ficLon – the space explorer, the scienLst and the post-human enLty – in stories by six Mexican women authors to demonstrate how they have re-imagined them to create new paradigms of female agency appropriate for the contemporary world. Four tenets of theories of feminist science ficLon will be applied in this literary analysis: interrogaLon, quesLoning of the tradiLonal male>female power hierarchy, affirmaLon of fluid idenLLes and subversion of tradiLonal SF metaphors. These Mexican women writers are a significant corpus of innovaLve literary voices worthy of close criLcal aâenLon and inclusion in the widening canon of the “Mexican Feminine Boom”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
