{"title":"Speculative-Real Ethnoracial Spaces and the Formation of a Nepantlera Warrior","authors":"F. Aldama","doi":"10.7560/tsll63205","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article examines Robert Rodriguez’s construction of a transborder, hemispheric Américas space sci-fi storyworld in his film Alita: Battle Angel (2019). After considering a tradition of mainstream sci-fi narratives that erase or reconstruct ethnoracial peoples as exotic ornament, the article provides a critical overview of how Latinx sci-fi creators such as Alex Ri-vera, Carla Cavina, and Rodriguez use a “Brown-optic” to strike back at this tradition. It continues with an analysis of Rodriguez’s building of transborder storyworld spaces and Alita’s becoming a cyber-Latina warrior.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"63 1","pages":"199 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63205","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT:This article examines Robert Rodriguez’s construction of a transborder, hemispheric Américas space sci-fi storyworld in his film Alita: Battle Angel (2019). After considering a tradition of mainstream sci-fi narratives that erase or reconstruct ethnoracial peoples as exotic ornament, the article provides a critical overview of how Latinx sci-fi creators such as Alex Ri-vera, Carla Cavina, and Rodriguez use a “Brown-optic” to strike back at this tradition. It continues with an analysis of Rodriguez’s building of transborder storyworld spaces and Alita’s becoming a cyber-Latina warrior.
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