Research Catalog

Title

Cyborgs in Latin America / J. Andrew Brown.

Author

Brown, J. Andrew, 1970-

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Details

Description

xi, 212 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Cyborgs in Latin America explores the ways cultural expression in Latin America has grappled with the changing relationships between technology and human identity. The book takes a literary and cultural studies approach in examining narrative, film and advertising campaigns from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay by such artists as Ricardo Piglia, Edmundo Paz Sold̀n, Carmen Boullosa and Alberto Fuguet among others. Using and criticizing theoretical models developed by Katherine Hayles, Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, the book will appeal to specialists and students of Latin American Studies; Posthuman Theory; and Literature, Science and Technology Studies. This ebook is participating in an experiment and is available Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) licence. Users are free to disseminate and reuse the ebook. The licence does not however permit commercial exploitation or the creation of derivative works without specific permission. To view a copy of this license visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0. For more information about the experiment visit our FAQs.

Subject

• Spanish American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Science fiction, Spanish American > History and criticism
• Cyborgs in literature
• Cyborgs in mass media
• Cyborgs in motion pictures
• Literature and technology > Latin America > History > 20th century
• Mass media and technology > Latin America > History > 20th century
• Human beings > Philosophy
• Cyborgs in mass media
• Cyborgs in motion pictures
• Human beings > Philosophy
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American
• Literature and technology
• Mass media and technology
• Science fiction, Spanish American
• Social theory
• Society and social sciences
• Society
• Sociology and anthropology
• Sociology
• Spanish American fiction

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Posthuman porteños: cyborg survivors in Argentine narrative and film -- Missing gender: the posthuman feminine in Alicia Borinsky, Carmen Boullosa, and Eugenia Prado -- Ripped stitches: mass media and televisual imaginaries in Rafael Courtoisie's narrative -- Neoliberal prosthetics in postdictatorial Argentina and Bolivia: Carlos Gamerro and Edmundo Paz Soldán -- Video heads and rewound bodies: cyborg memories in Rodrigo Fresán and Alberto Fuguet.

ISBN

• 9780230103900 (alk. paper)
• 0230103901 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009047964

OCLC

• 466773496
• SCSB-12147190

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library