Posthumanism and the graphic novel in Latin America

By: King, Edward, 1981- [author]Contributor(s): Page, Joanna, 1974- [author]Language: English Publisher: London, UK : UCL Press, 2017Description: 1 electronic resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations (colour and black and white)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781911576457; 1911576453; 9781911576464; 1911576461; 9781911576501; 191157650XSubject(s): H 480: Sequential artH 150: Countries, regionsLatin AmericaArgentinaBrazilChileMexicoUruguayDDC classification: 741.598 Online resources:

Contents:

MACHINE-GENERATED CONTENTS NOTE: Introduction -- (Post)humanism and technocapitalist modernity -- Modernity and the (re)enchantment of the world -- Archaeologies of media and the baroque -- Steampunk, cyberpunk and the ethics of embodiment -- Urban topologies and posthuman assemblages -- Post-anthropocentric ecologies and embodied cognition -- Intermediality and graphic novel as performance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary: MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "Latin America is experiencing a boom in graphic novels that are highly innovative in their conceptual play and their reworking of the medium. Inventive artwork and sophisticated scripts have combined to satisfy the demand of a growing readership, both at home and abroad. Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America, which is the first book-length study of the topic, argues that the graphic novel is emerging in Latin America as a uniquely powerful force to explore the nature of twenty-first century subjectivity. The authors place particular emphasis on the ways in which humans are bound to their nonhuman environment, and these ideas are productively drawn out in relation to posthuman thought and experience. The book draws together a range of recent graphic novels from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay, many of which experiment with questions of transmediality, the representation of urban space, modes of perception and cognition, and a new form of ethics for a posthuman world." -- Provided by publisher.

Holdings ( 1 )
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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
eBooks	Hans-Dieter Klingemann Library	Hans-Dieter Klingemann Library	Open Access	H 480 Kin 2017e	Available		2019-2507

Total holds: 0

BIBLIOGRAPHY NOTE: includes bibliographical references and index.

MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "Latin America is experiencing a boom in graphic novels that are highly innovative in their conceptual play and their reworking of the medium. Inventive artwork and sophisticated scripts have combined to satisfy the demand of a growing readership, both at home and abroad. Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America, which is the first book-length study of the topic, argues that the graphic novel is emerging in Latin America as a uniquely powerful force to explore the nature of twenty-first century subjectivity. The authors place particular emphasis on the ways in which humans are bound to their nonhuman environment, and these ideas are productively drawn out in relation to posthuman thought and experience. The book draws together a range of recent graphic novels from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay, many of which experiment with questions of transmediality, the representation of urban space, modes of perception and cognition, and a new form of ethics for a posthuman world." -- Provided by publisher.

CATALOGUING: copy + original descriptive cataloguing + additions/corrections + summary + contents, 2019-11-02, 2020-04-02.

CATALOGUING: subject indexing + call number with BIDAC, 2020-04-02, 2020-08-22.