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The souls of cyberfolk : posthumanism as vernacular theory

Title
The souls of cyberfolk : posthumanism as vernacular theory / Thomas Foster.
Author
Foster, Thomas, 1959-
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
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xxix, 312 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Electronic mediations ; v. 13
Subject
  • Science fiction, American > History and criticism
  • Cybernetics in literature
  • Literature and technology > United States
  • Technology in literature
  • Cyborgs in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-303) and index.
Contents
Cyberpunk's posthuman afterlife -- The legacies of cyberpunk fiction : new cultural formations and the emergence of the posthuman -- Meat puppets or robopaths : the question of (dis)embodiment in neuromancer -- The sex appeal of the inorganic : posthuman narratives and constructions of desire -- Trapped by the body : telepresence technologies and transgendered performance -- The souls of cyberfolk : performativity, virtual embodiment, and racial histories -- Replaying the L.A. riots : cyborg narratives and national traumas -- Franchise nationalisms : globalization, consumer culture, and new ethnicities -- The antinomies of posthuman thought.
Call Number
JFE 06-1167
ISBN
  • 081663405X (hc : alk. paper)
  • 0816634068 (pb : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004022375
OCLC
56617307
Author
Foster, Thomas, 1959-
Title
The souls of cyberfolk : posthumanism as vernacular theory / Thomas Foster.
Imprint
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
Series
Electronic mediations ; v. 13
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-303) and index.
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