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Úrsula K. Heise for Peninsula 360 Press — No more magical realism: Latin American Narrative uses Imagination and Fantasy to explain its world

UCLA IoES and English Professor Úrsula K. Heise “points out that, in Latin America, ‘what has attracted attention has been the attention paid to social settings rather than to science and technology’ in the so-called science fiction or ‘speculative’ fiction, which is what many prefer to call this type of narrative.”