Cyborgs, sexuality, and the undead : the body in Mexican and Brazilian speculative fiction
M. Elizabeth Ginway
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
| Omfang | xi, 247 sider
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| Opplysninger | Introduction: Re-reading the body in the speculative fiction of Mexico and Brazil -- Gendered cyborgs : mechanical, industrial and digital -- The baroque ethos, antropofagia and queer sexualities -- Trauma, consumer and political zombies -- Vampires : immunity and resistance.. - "Expands the purview of speculative fiction in all its incarnations (science fiction, fantasy, horror) beyond the traditional Anglo-American context to focus on work produced in Mexico and Brazil, providing a historical overview from 1870 to the present, and addressing the technological, cultural, and social consequences of modernity and its implications for the human body"--
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| ISBN | 9780826501172. - 9780826501189
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