New Men and Old Ways: The Limits of Speculation in Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Omicunlé and Hecho en Saturno

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1 For more on this, see Rodríguez (111-134), Horn (102-121), Maillo-Pozo, and Jaime.

2 Asked in an interview with Amy Brady whether she thinks about climate change beyond the ways in which it appears in her fiction, Indiana replies, “The Caribbean you describe exists in the present. Placing these plagues in the future gives the reader a ‘safe’ place from which to view them” (Brady).

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Emily A. Maguire

Emily A. Maguire is an Associate Professor of Latin American literature and culture at Northwestern University. She is the author of Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography (2011). Her academic articles have appeared in Small Axe, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, ASAP/Journal, and Revista Iberoamericana.