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- Studies in global science fiction
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- Studies in global science fiction.
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- Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction -- On Posthumanism and Science Fiction -- This Volume -- Works Cited -- Part I: Posthuman Subjects -- Chapter 2: Prosthetic Futures: Disability and Genre Self-consciousness in Maielis González Fernández's Sobre los nerds y otras criaturas mitológicas -- Introduction -- Prosthesis as Metaphor: The Other or/and the Posthuman -- Self-conscious, Self-aware Monsters -- Prosthetic Cuba, the Ultimate Rarity -- Genre Self-consciousness
- Reading the Monster in Slow Motion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: We Have Always Been Posthuman: Eve Gil's Virtus and the Reconfiguration of the Lettered Subject -- A Note on Posthumanism and Latin America -- Virtus: Cultural Critique and Political Satire -- First Cyborg Identity: The Video-Child -- Linos Pound and Juana Inés: The Neolettered Cyborgs -- The Neo "letrada" Cyborg: Juana Inés -- The Cyborg Dilemma -- Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Does the Posthuman Actually Exist in Mexico? A Critique of the Essayistic Production on Posthumanist Discourse Written by Mexicans (2001-2007)
- Introduction -- The Essayistic Construction of the Posthuman as Understood by Mexicans -- Mexican Exclusion, Devaluation, Unawareness, and Cultural Erasure -- Works Cited -- Part II: Slow Violence and Posthuman Environments -- Chapter 5: Fukú, Postapocalyptic Haunting, and Science-Fictional Embodiment in Junot Díaz's "Monstro" -- Fukú Americanus: Writing the Caribbean Through Anathema -- La Negrura: Zombies, Black Flesh -- Becoming Monsters, Turning the World Black -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: Villa Epecuén: Slow Violence and the Posthuman Film Set
- Slow Violence and the Making and Unmaking of Villa Epecuén -- Genre Cinema and Seeing the Posthuman -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: Catfish and Nanobots: Invasive Species and Eco-critical Futures in Alejandro Rojas Medina's Chunga Maya -- Rhetoric of Invasion: A Definitive War on Marabú -- Clarias as Crisis and Solution -- Works Cited -- Part III: Posthuman Others -- Chapter 8: Andean Cyborgs: Market and Indigeneity in Miguel Esquirol's "El Cementerio de Elefantes" -- The Aparapita: He Who Carries the City on His Back -- The Bolivian Market: Meeting Point of Social Classes and Cultures
- Garbage and Resistance -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9: The Politics of Resistance in Brazil's Dystopian Thriller 3% -- Introduction -- Season 1: Biopolitics and Dystopia -- Season 2: The Third Space-Biotechnology and Utopian Possibilities -- References -- Chapter 10: Bruja Theory: Latinidad Without Latinos in Popular Narratives of Brujería -- References -- Chapter 11: "A Mutant Faith": Science Fiction, Posthumanism, and Queer Futurity in Arca's KiCK Album Pentalogy -- Arca and Queer Futurity -- Mutants and Faith -- Coda -- References
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- 10.1007/978-3-031-11791-6
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- om1434838709
- Title
Posthumanism and Latin(x) American science fiction / Antonio Córdoba, Emily A. Maguire, editors.
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Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
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©2023
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online resource
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Studies in global science fiction
Studies in global science fiction.
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Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 16, 2022).
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Cordoba, Antonio (Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures), editor.
Maguire, Emily A., editor.
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Print version: 9783031117916
Print version: 3031117905 9783031117909
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10.1007/978-3-031-11791-6 doi