Format:
1 online resource (261 pages)
ISBN:
9783031117916
Series Statement:
Studies in Global Science Fiction
Content:
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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031117909
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783031117909
Language:
English
