Modernity In Ecuadorian Science Fiction

Modernity in Ecuadorian science fiction

Introduction

Fantasy is about what general opinion considers impossible: science fiction is about what general opinion considers possible under certain circumstances circumstances. We understand science fiction as an unusual literary genre to analyze and represent in studies texts, but like all literature, contains and images and symbolic representations that are understood as convoluted and signifiers of an existing modernity or by existing or by existing.

Developing

This theme covers endless works that try to show the reader a reality that may or may not become possible in our time, unrealized scientific advances, creatures of other planets, incredible elements of a fictional nature and other characteristics accompanied with love, heroic, heroic plots,political-social, etc.

We find numerous non -Hispanic speech authors as the most recognized in this literary field, and, even so, in Ecuador (as in Latin America) there have been a wide variety of stories and novels about science fiction. In the texts Fiat Lux! From Zoila Ugarte de Landívar and Snow Flower of Juan Montalv.

Modernity, as Hendelsman explains, occurred in Ecuador for a scarce period and this did not leave much relevance or discussion between the country’s writers, this was characterized by his individuality and cosmopolitan orientation and each writer instead of restricting himself by certain rulesOr canons, had a white letter to develop its own artistic expression.

What we find in modernity is a movement open to all influence and inspiration, which is of course, distinguishes the work of an author to that of another.

The milestones of modernity appear: dynamite, repeater gun, spike wire and machine gun. The media and artistic creation change with the introduction of photography, the phonograph, the source pen and then the pen, the typewriter, the telegraph, the phone, the radio and the film projector. The uniqueness of nineteenth -century Ecuadorian science fiction consists so much in the positivist last figurative in the selection of the national name and in the configuration of a contemporary appetite for its existence. In other words, nineteenth -century Ecuadorian science fiction only becomes possible from a reading that constitutes the materials proposed here, from the present. With this we allude to the fact that Ecuadorian science fiction is constituted as such, only through quotation networks, allusions, pastiches and references;Through a network of Inter texts (texts that connect with other texts) that facilitate the circulation of documents provided here, such as science fiction.

In the previous text we find a complete relationship between the modernity that was promoted in the world, including Ecuador and some of its consequences: science fiction and as was also the writer Juan Montalvo. Industrial and social modernity was the promoter of those stories and novels since then enjoyed. Features of this current that we can easily find in the literature of that time, such as the elements alluding to progress and science, as we find in the story Flor de Snow. Another highlight of this text is that of two great discoveries, the first, the Aimatocare fly and the snow flowModern science and its context.

conclusion

In the first story, Fiat Lux!, There is no talk of a character as such, rather they place us about the different activities and characteristics that a supernatural light that moves through the universe and time. The unique way of describing this leading element as well as the strangeness and aesthetics of the story can simpor something beautiful and pleasant that means more than life. In reference to the style in which it is written we can relate it to the following appointment made by Rama;We find gathering the last romanticism, realism, naturalism, Parnassianism, symbolism, etc., that give modernism their peculiar syncretic configuration, literary tendencies that we can find in the story and that lead to relate.

In the story we observe how symbols can be related to the passage of time, the continuous change and progress of society and its physical context, as referring to a natural evolution that compares with the passage to modernity.