<b>Redescubriendo a Caliban: futurismos monstruosos en tres novelas de ciencia ficcion por autoras del Caribe hispano</b>

<p dir="ltr">This dissertation examines how Caribbean science fiction (SF) engages with resistance, identity, and futurity through the figure of Caliban. Drawing from <i>The Tempest</i> and Roberto Fernández Retamar’s <i>Caliban</i> (1971), this study explores how SF subverts colonial discourses, reclaims monstrosity, and imagines alternative futures. Through an analysis of three novels—<i>Dealing in Dreams</i> (2019) by Lilliam Rivera, <i>La mucama de Omicunlé</i> (2015) by Rita Indiana, and <i>Fábulas de una abuela extraterrestre</i> (1988) by Daína Chaviano—this project highlights how SF integrates Afro-Taino spiritualities, anti-capitalist and anti-patriarchal critiques, and speculative temporalities to forge alternative epistemologies beyond Western paradigms. The dissertation is structured around three core concepts: violence, monstrosity, and fear. The first chapter situates SF within a Caribbean context, tracing its role as a counter-hegemonic discourse contesting dominant historical and ideological narratives. The second chapter explores <i>Dealing in Dreams</i> and its critique of systemic violence, particularly its deconstruction of utopian and dystopian models through a queer lens. The third chapter examines monstrosity and hybridity in <i>La mucama de Omicunlé</i>, analyzing how Rita Indiana challenges Western notions of identity, history, and progress through Afro-Caribbean and Taino cosmovisions and nonlinear temporalities. The final chapter considers fear as both a tool of control and resistance, assessing how <i>Fábulas de una abuela extraterrestre</i> subverts ideological oppression and reclaims speculative imagination as defiance. By positioning SF as a space of radical imagination, this dissertation argues that the genre serves as a critical response to colonialism, and sociopolitical oppression, ultimately transforming Caliban into a figure of speculative rebellion.</p>