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2517. Retrofuturismos. Antologia Steampunk

Edited By Marian Womack

Published by Ediciones Nevsky




Book cover description:
Spanish steampunk has grown up. While paying homage to the Victorian postcards and teachers of proto-steampunk landscapes in which cranks, gears and steam turbines were inspired, Spanish writers have internalized gender aesthetics and ideology of steampunk to narrate key moments in our modern history, the rise of new social movements, or denounce social injustice. Steampunk is here to stay. And the formula of nostalgia for a past "invented" with a penchant for rebellion, the revolution (the "punk" accompanying the "steam") may be the sincerest form of us thinking where we come from and where are we going.

El steampunk espanol se ha hecho mayor. Sin dejar de rendir homenaje a las postales victorianas y a los maestros del proto-steampunk en los que se inspiraron sus paisajes de bielas, engranajes y turbinas a vapor, los escritores espanoles del genero han interiorizado la estetica y la ideologia del steampunk para narrarnos momentos claves de nuestra historia moderna, el auge de nuevos movimientos sociales, o denunciar la injusticia social. El steampunk esta aqui para quedarse. Y su formula de nostalgia por un pasado "inventado" junto a su inclinacion por la rebelion, por la revolucion (el "punk" que acompana al "steam") quiza sea la forma mas sincera de hacernos pensar de donde venimos y de hacernos reflexionar hacia donde vamos.


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See Also
2495. Marian Womack
2515. Ediciones Nevsky
2516. Steampunk. Antologia Retrofuturista
1847. Felix J. Palma


Collection Tags
Anthology