Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Altered States
5. The Man in the Klein Blue Suit 29
6. The Cultural Logic of Post-Capitalism 45
7. Logical Gaps and Capitalism’s Seduction in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl 61
8. “The Dystopia of the Obsolete” 73
9. Post-Frontier and Re-Definition of Space in Tropic of Orange 93
10. Our Posthuman Adolescence 111
11. Plastic Subjectivities
12. Woman Gave Names to All the Animals 131
13. The End of Life as We Knew It 149
14. “The Treatment for Stirrings” 165
15. Imagining Black Bodies in the Future 181
16. Brown Girl in the Ring as Urban Policy 193
17. Spectral Histories
18. Archive Failure? Cielos de la tierra’s Historical Dystopia 219
19. Love, War, and Mal de Amores 239
20. Culture of Control/Control of Culture 259
21. The Sublime Simulacrum 275
22. Neoliberalism and Dystopia in U.S.–Mexico Borderlands Fiction 291
23. America and Books Are “Never Going to Die” 311
24. In Pursuit of an Outside 327
25. Homero Aridjis and Mexico’s Eco-Critical Dystopia 339
26. Emancipating Genres
27. Lost in Grand Central 357
28. Which Way Is Hope? Dystopia into the (Mexican) Borgian Labyrinth 373
29. Dystopia Now 393
30. The Romance of the Blazing World 409
31. “It’s not power, it’s sex” 427
32. Another Novel Is Possible 453
33. About the Contributors 475