Historie przyszłości i praca cyborgów: Science fiction amerykańsko-meksykańskiego pogranicza po NAFTA
Future Histories and Cyborg Labour: Reading Borderlands Science Fiction After NAFTA

Summary/Abstract: This article extends the study of Chicanofuturism – or, more broadly, science fictionby Chicano writers – by encouraging a dialogue between SF texts from either side ofthe US-Mexican border. Rivera examines the short story Reaching the Shore (1994) byMexican author Guillermo Lavín, the SF films of American director Alex Rivera, and theChicano-futurist novel Lunar Braceros (2009) by Rosaura Sanchez and Beatrice Pita. Thejoint analysis of these texts encourages a hemispheric (North-South) reading of sciencefiction from a specific geopolitical region (the US-Mexico border), taking into accounta specific historical moment (the era of the rule of international capitalism and NAFTA).These three borderland texts outline critical visions of globalisation while presentinglate capitalism as a disturbingly enduring extension of colonial power relations betweenthe US and Mexico.

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