The self wired
Subtitle: technology and subjectivity in contemporary narrative
By: Lisa Yaszek.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Literature and technology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Science fiction films -- United States -- History and criticism.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.; Biomedical engineering -- United States.; Medical technology -- United States.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Technology in motion pictures.; Subjectivity in literature.; Cybernetics in literature.; Technology in literature.; Cyborgs in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-202) and index.
Table of contents: title: Riddles in the wiring: representing the technologically mediated subject; title: A new mode of expression takes over: cybernetic citizenship in the postwar novel; title: You've come a long way, baby: imag(in)ing technology, gender, and race in women's science fiction; title: It's all about getting things done: bodies th/at work in cyberpunk fiction; title: Of fossils and androids: (re)producing sexuality in recent film; title: "Cyborg writing" as an emergent narrative genre.