Resumen de New paradigms of female agency in science fiction by Mexican women writers
Even though science fiction (SF) in Mexico has been mostly the domain of male writers, Mexican women writers have utilized this genre to present innovative female identities fitting for a modern society deeply informed by and built on science and technology. In this article I analyze the representation of three icons of science fiction – the space explorer, the scientist and the post-human entity – in stories by six Mexican women authors to demonstrate how they have re-imagined them to create new paradigms of female agency appropriate for the contemporary world. Four tenets of theories of feminist science fiction will be applied in this literary analysis: interrogation, questioning of the traditional male>female power hierarchy, affirmation of fluid identities and subversion of traditional SF metaphors. These Mexican women writers are a significant corpus of innovative literary voices worthy of close critical attention and inclusion in the widening canon of the “Mexican Feminine Boom”.
