Temas y motivos en la ciencia ficción andina escrita por mujeres (2010-2020)

Abstract

The primary objective of this research is to identify and analyze the five most frequent themes and motifs in Andean science fiction stories written by women and published between 2010 and 2020. The themes and motifs within the corpus are represented from a perspective of otherness, which often veers towards monstrosity in relation to hegemonic capitalist, patriarchal, and colonial discourses. However, these "other" characters frequently fail to subvert the system, often becoming absorbed by it, with dystopian elements recurring. Thus, with few exceptions, otherness "does not presuppose any subversion of the norm, since it has been produced by the system itself to reinforce it, so that the dissidence represented by monstrosity as a place from which to become an element of resistance for social transformation disappears" (López-Pellisa, 2022a: 410). Conversely, counter-hegemonic monsters achieve subversion through their own agency as "inappropriate/d others" (Haraway, 1999). The otherness in these narratives is marked by race, class, gender, age (childhood or old age versus adulthood), and species.