Voracious Capitalism and “Consumed ” Bodies: Post National Dystopia and Globalization in Fragmentos de la Tierra Prometida by Fernando Contreras
Fragmentos de la tierra prometida by Fernando Contreras-Castro (2012), offers an allegorical reading of the present by presenting a dystopian future. Global capitalism practices (social exclusion; exploitation of immigrants; workers’ ‘consumption’; the ‘perverse’ effects of scientific development on...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | Costa Rica |
| Recursos: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/16210 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/view/16210 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Distopía ciencia ficción literatura costarricense nanoliteratura microrrelato Dystopia science fiction Costa Rican literature nano literature micro story |
| Resumo: | Fragmentos de la tierra prometida by Fernando Contreras-Castro (2012), offers an allegorical reading of the present by presenting a dystopian future. Global capitalism practices (social exclusion; exploitation of immigrants; workers’ ‘consumption’; the ‘perverse’ effects of scientific development on the planet, turned into a giant dumping site; technology as a tool for social control…) are allegorized in each of the narrative capsules –fragments of an unsettling world- of this example of Costa Rican nano literature. |
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