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The sacralization of science in American Gods, by Neil Gaiman: modern science fiction in crisis/A sacralizacao da ciencia em Deuses Americanos, de Neil Gaiman: a Ficcao Cientifica moderna em crise

Marin, Hebe Tocci

Soletras (São Gonçalo), 2014-07, Vol.14 (28), p.229 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro- Uerj

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  • Título:
    The sacralization of science in American Gods, by Neil Gaiman: modern science fiction in crisis/A sacralizacao da ciencia em Deuses Americanos, de Neil Gaiman: a Ficcao Cientifica moderna em crise
  • Autor: Marin, Hebe Tocci
  • É parte de: Soletras (São Gonçalo), 2014-07, Vol.14 (28), p.229
  • Descrição: Approaching science and technoscientific changes in literature has been made by humanity since the beginning and has evolved alongside with history. From this practice derives Science Fiction (SF), one of the many branches of gothic literature. In our society, which makes constant e increasing use of technology and gadgets, however, many changes imagined by SF authors, either fantastic or verisimilar, have already been reached and there are almost no themes and resources left which were not explained by science. Therewith, facing a possible depletion of SF themes, British author Neil Gaiman creates in his masterpiece American Gods (2001) a new type of science: a sacralized and "godfied" science. In the novel, gods from different cultures and ancient religions must live with and survive to new emergent gods--gods of the media, of cars and computers, among others. Both god generations fight over what feeds them--the faith of mankind--and during this process, many of these gods evolve, involute or even perish. The SF created by Neil Gaiman returns to the myth as an explation to the unknown and becomes then a species of "reverse" SF. This article proposes a debate about this new face of the SF based on the theories of Fred Botting, Mircea Eliade and Ernst Cassirer, among others.
  • Editor: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro- Uerj
  • Idioma: Espanhol
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