Ramirez, Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson, B. Drawing on the groundbreaking work of Catherine S. Smoking Mirror Blues opposes a strictly scientific way of looking at and understanding (organizing and hierarchizing) reality that has roots in the racist and patriarchal histories of modernity and colonialism. It explores how Chicanx and Latinx futurisms, of which Hogan's novel provides an exemplary text, reimagine the present as a world that no longer adheres to or is strictly determined by the tenets of western rationalism and scientific thought. Abstract : This essay, through a reading of Ernest Hogan's Smoking Mirror Blues (2001), challenges the entrenched subordination of fantasy and supernatural to the supposed rationality of science fiction.
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