![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, Silvia Moreno-Garcia isn’t unfamiliar with experimenting with genre boundaries, and with each new novel she crafts something original, whilst also more often than not rooting them in Mexican culture and folklore. Yet the overall effect isn’t one of synergy but of disharmony, leaving the reader confused as to what sort of hybrid work the author was trying to create in the first place. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)-is similarly chimeric, populated with beings that are half-human and half-animal, and straddling the varied elements of a Gothic romance, the ethics of scientific experimentation (and its complicity in colonialization), women’s rights (or the lack thereof), and the Caste War of Yucatán (1847-1901), all within three hundred or so pages. Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s latest novel-which reimagines H. In Greek mythology, a “chimera” is a hybrid creature, cobbled from multiple animal parts, an amalgamation of disparate components. ![]()
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