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Record Nr.

UNINA9910265942603321

Autore

Brown J

Titolo

Cyborgs in Latin America  / / by J. Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basingstoke, : Springer Nature, 2010

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010

ISBN

9780230109773

9780230103900

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 212 pages)

Disciplina

809

Soggetti

Literature   

Philosophy and social sciences

Culture - Study and teaching

Ethnology - Latin America

Social sciences - Philosophy

Philosophy of mind

Postcolonial/World Literature

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Regional and Cultural Studies

Latin American Culture

Social Theory

Philosophy of Mind

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Posthuman Porteños: Cyborg Survivors in Argentine Narrative and Film -- Chapter 2 Missing Gender: The Posthuman Feminine in Alicia Borinsky, Carmen Boullosa, and Eugenia Prado -- Chapter 3 Ripped Stitches: Mass Media and Televisual Imaginaries in Rafael Courtoisie's Narrative -- Chapter 4 Neoliberal Prosthetics in Postdictatorial Argentina and Bolivia: Carlos Gamerro and Edmundo Paz Soldán -- Chapter 5 Video Heads and Rewound Bodies: Cyborg Memories in Rodrigo Fresán and Alberto Fuguet -- Conclusion -- Notes --



Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org . Cyborgs in Latin America explores the ways cultural expression in Latin America has grappled with the changing relationships between technology and human identity.