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"Utopian Dreams, Apocalyptic Nightmares" traces the history of
utopian representations of the Americas, first on the part of the
colonizers, who idealized the New World as an earthly paradise, and
later by Latin American modernizing elites, who imagined Western
industrialization, cosmopolitanism and consumption as a utopian
dream for their independent societies. Carlos Fuentes, Homero
Aridjis, Carmen Boullosa, and Alejandro Morales utilize the
literary genre of dystopian science fiction to elaborate on how
globalization has resulted in the alienation of indigenous peoples
and the deterioration of the ecology. This book concludes that
Mexican and Chicano perspectives on the past and the future of
their societies constitute a key site for the analysis of the
problems of underdevelopment, social injustice, and ecological
decay that plague today's world. Whereas utopian discourse was once
used to justify colonization, Mexican and Chicano writers now
deploy dystopian rhetoric to interrogate projects of modernization,
contributing to the current debate on the global expansion of
capitalism. The narratives coincide in expressing confidence in the
ability of Latin American and U.S. Latino popular sectors to claim
a decisive role in the implementation of enhanced measures to
guarantee an ecologically sound, ethnically diverse, and just
society for the future of the Americas.
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