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I am currently teaching a course, in English, entitled ‘Latin America Science Fiction and Fantasy’. Although I have taught courses on Brazilian science fiction in Portuguese, this is the first time that I have taught texts from Spanish America and Brazil in English translation. Based on my experience so far, I hope to provide some suggestions in this chapter to help others put together a similar course. I begin with a list of possible films, and then discuss the general themes of the stories included in Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain (2003), edited by Andrea L. Bell and Yolanda Molina-Gavilán. Since these stories alone cannot fill an entire semester, I suggest other novels and stories available in translation, as well as the possibility of including novels written by Anglo-Americans about Brazil.
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Ginway, M.E. (2011). Teaching Latin American Science Fiction and Fantasy in English: A Case Study. In: Sawyer, A., Wright, P. (eds) Teaching Science Fiction. Teaching the New English. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230300392_12
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