Cyborgs in Latin America
By: J. Andrew Brown.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230103900
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Posthuman porteos: cyborg survivors in Argentine narrative and film; title: Missing gender: the posthuman feminine in Alicia Borinsky, Carmen Boullosa, and Eugenia Prado; title: Ripped stitches: mass media and televisual imaginaries in Rafael Courtoisie's narrative; title: Neoliberal prosthetics in post-dictatorial Argentina and Bolivia: Carlos Gamerro and Edmundo Paz Soldań; title: Video heads and rewound bodies: cyborg memories in Rodrigo Fresán and Alberto Fuguet.