...Genres of Fiction This chapter, the first of two to revolve around gender and genre, builds on the work produced on socialism and women in women’s studies and Eastern European studies and on television studies’ rich legacy of engaging with issues of gender to unearth the gendered story...

... Roberto Bolaño femicides US-Mexico border genre fiction horror ...

... escapism speculative fiction genre affect Junot Díaz ...

... This interlude reflects on the crucial relevance of fiction as a literary genre and as a mode of expression in ethnographic writing. ethnography fiction reality expression ...

... how the conventions of genre fiction such as horror and the crime novel expose the otherworldliness of a particular historical destruction: the femicides of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. It argues that 2666 instrumentalizes the figure of women’s corpses to produce grotesque excitement in repeated sexual...

... Reading Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao , this chapter examines the emotional tonalities of escape and escapism. Genre affect emerges as a way of thinking about the affective textures of speculative and visionary fiction. Where escape is a genre of change, genre affect emerges...

... of planetary evacuation genres, fictions, and plans to evacuate the planet, colluding sometimes with religious and faith doctrines and narratives, but they do not move very far away from the problems, pitfalls, and ethical dilemmas explored in the book. The chapter returns to different aesthetic forms...

... In her contribution, “Fragmentary Redemptions: ARMY, RPF, and the AU at the Heart of the Bangtan Universe,” Regina Yung Lee provides a close reading of the video “Euphoria” to demonstrate how the storyworld of the Bangtan Universe borrows heavily from two genres of fan fiction to engage ARMY’s...

... popular fascination with crime and thus participated in a widespread transnational circulation of crime and spy screen fiction, a favorite genre of the Cold War. The chapter concludes by tracing Blue Light through its postsocialist reincarnations under the circumstances of neoliberal authoritarianism...

... the reader to moments of destruction; this mechanism, the author argues, underscores how violence is repeated in form. Doom Patterns transcends traditional genre confines, emphasizing how the reading protocols of Latinx speculative fiction unearth seemingly hidden elements in a text. By challenging...

... In “Fifty Shades of Butter: Consensual Nonconsent in BTS Fan Fiction,” Raymond San Diego examines a subgenre of self-insert fan fiction featuring BTS. The phenomena of “Y/N” or “Your name” stories is a largely Anglophone genre of fan-fiction videos distributed on social media platforms like...

... The seventh chapter looks at Adál as a Nuyorican artist interested in science fiction. It comments on his attraction to the genre of the fotonovela . Stavans visits Adál in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where they discuss Spanglish not only as a language but also as a cultural approach to life...

... the episodic, escapist, and Afrofuturist aspects of the escape story—from (anti)slave narratives to contemporary visionary fiction. Escape emerges as an episodic structure that is activated by the reader, with the potential to push against the agential individual narrative structure of generic escape...

... This piece surveys Lessing’s career, including descriptions of how this writer, moving through very different genres, including both traditional realism and science fiction, finds ways to warn and chastise her readers for dozing off while driving right off the cliff of political mayhem...

... of healing as one might between tinctures, salves, and teas. An anchor piece here is “Ecology Is Everything,” a cabinet holding these remedies and showing how ecology, justice, and health are inextricably intertwined. This section also contains a few more recent works of pure fiction, a new genre...

... commercial cinema. The chapter also situates the book’s experiments with narrative voice and style in relation to the long-standing mutual proximity of ethnography, fiction, and cinema as genres of expression and concludes with a discussion of the ecology of images in the Anthropocene. cinema...

... This essay concerns the juxtaposition of literary techniques of showing and academic methods of knowing in ethnographic writing. To combine different modes of writing in the same text—descriptive and analytical, fictional and factual—broaches ethical and discursive questions...

... into creative nonfiction and other experimental genres of public writing. The ongoingness of Black death and Black mourning continues to warrant attention, and one aim of the chapter is to account for the histories of the present that inform contemporary approaches to the affective life of racism...

... Chapter 4 discusses how Sesshu Foster’s novel Atomik Aztex (2005) reimagines the historical cataclysm of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Turning to the tropes of science fiction exhibits a “Latinxface” performance that revises both minstrelsy traditions and expectations for justice-imagining...