Cyborgs in Latin America

by Brown, J. Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780230103900
• ISBN10: 0230103901
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book explores the ways cultural expression in Latin America has grappled with the changing relationships between technology and human identity.

Author Biography

J. Andrew Brown is Associate Professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis.  He is the author of Test Tube Envy: Science and Power in Argentine Narrative and several articles on science, technology and Latin American literature and film.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Posthuman Porteños: Cyborg Survivors in Argentine Narrative and Film	p. 9
Missing Gender: The Posthuman Feminine in Alicia Borinsky, Carmen Boullosa, and Eugenia Prado	p. 43
Ripped Stitches: Mass Media and Televisual Imaginaries in Rafael Courtoisie's Narrative	p. 77
Neoliberal Prosthetics in Postdictatorial Argentina and Bolivia: Carlos Gamerro and Edmundo Paz Soldán	p. 113
Video Heads and Rewound Bodies: Cyborg Memories in Rodrigo Fresán and Alberto Fuguet	p. 145
Conclusion	p. 175
Notes	p. 179
Bibliography	p. 185
Index	p. 193
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