ABSTRACT
In Brazilian SF, four subgenres are booming: Afrofuturism, Amazofuturism, Indigenous Futurism, and Sertãopunk. Afrofuturism has a long history, yet now many writers are fully engaging with its aesthetics and propositions. Amazofuturism draws from solarpunk aesthetics to oppose negative discourses about the Amazon and Indigenous peoples, a similar perspective to that proposed by Indigenous Futurism in works of writers such as Daniel Munduruku. Lastly, Sertãopunk engages with cyberpunk themes and Brazilian northeastern history. This chapter is centered on how these subgenres represent different experiences of Brazilianness and how they reframe the common misrepresentations of the respective locus or identity.
