Time Travel in the Latin American and Caribbean Imagination: Re-reading History [Paperback]

Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is an ambitious, interdisciplinary study that develops - across several related discursive sites - an argument about the centrality of time travel in the Latin American and Caribbean imagination.Prologue: Time Out of Joint Introduction: Time and Narrative in the Americas? Continuing Encounters: Journeys to (and from) the 'Discovery' and Conquest of the Americas? On Island Time? Temporal Displacement and the Caribbean The Ghost of La Malinche: Time Travel and Feminism? Not Just Kids' Stuff: Time Travel as Pedagogy in the Americas? Afterword: Time Travel Fact and Fiction

In this insightful text, Rudyard J. Alcocer taps into time travel as a means of exploring the relationship between the past, present, and future of Latin America. Authors that portray time travel recognize that, in order to move forward, they must if not resolve at least address colonial history. Thus Alcocer's careful reading illuminates how Latin American authors explore not only alternate perceptions of the colonial past, but also their dreams for the future of their countries.This book will be of great interest to scholars of Latin American literary and cultural production. - Kimberle S. L?pez, University of New Mexico and author of Latin American Novels of the Conquest: Reinventing the New World

As in his previous book, Narrative Mutations, Rudyard J. Alcocer leads the way to the future of interdisciplinary studies. In this book, he leads readers into the future itself and into new visions of the past through very provocative reflections on time travel in recent Latin American literature, film, and popular culture. In Latin America, as Alcocer demonstrates, postcoloniality remains a fragile vantage point menaced by the traumas of the past - the exploitation and genocide of African and indigenous peoples. Readers are reminded ls'