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Cyborgs in Latin America
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Abstract Cyborgs in Latin America explores the ways cultural expression in Latin America has grappled with the changing relationships between technology and human identity. The book takes a literary and cultural studies approach in examining narrative, film and advertising campaigns from Argentina, Bolivia, ... view more
Cyborgs in Latin America explores the ways cultural expression in Latin America has grappled with the changing relationships between technology and human identity. The book takes a literary and cultural studies approach in examining narrative, film and advertising campaigns from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay by such artists as Ricardo Piglia, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Carmen Boullosa and Alberto Fuguet among others. Using and criticizing theoretical models developed by Katherine Hayles, Donna Haraway, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, the book will appeal to specialists and students of Latin American Studies; Posthuman Theory; and Literature, Science and Technology Studies.... view less
Keywords
gender; Latin America; virtual reality; identity; cybernetics; science fiction; film; corporeality; literature; mass media; technology
Classification
Science of Literature, Linguistics
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Free Keywords
Cyborg; Media; Feminine; Posthuman; Culture; Technology; Identity; Latin America
Document language
English
Publication Year
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
City
New York
Page/Pages
XI,212 p.
ISBN
978–0–230–1
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works