Posthumanism and Latin(x) American science fiction / Antonio Córdoba, Emily A. Maguire, editors.
Cordoba, Antonio (Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures), editor.; Maguire, Emily, 1972- editor.
2023
PQ7082.S34
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Title
Posthumanism and Latin(x) American science fiction / Antonio Córdoba, Emily A. Maguire, editors.
ISBN
9783031117916 (electronic bk.)
3031117913 (electronic bk.)
3031117905 hardcover
9783031117909 hardcover
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11791-6
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 257 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-11791-6 doi
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PQ7082.S34
Dewey Decimal Classification
863.087620998
Summary
This volume explores how Latin American and Latinx creators have engaged science fiction to explore posthumanist thought. Contributors reflect on how Latin American and Latinx speculative art conceptualizes the operations of other, non-human forms of agency, and engages in environmentalist theory in ways that are estranging and open to new forms of species companionship. Essays cover literature, film, TV shows, and music, grouped in three sections: Posthumanist Subjects examines Latin(x) American iterations of some of the most common figurations of the posthuman, such as the cyborg and virtual environments and selves; Slow Violence and Environmental Threats understands that posthumanist meditations in the hemisphere take place in a material and cultural context shaped by the catastrophic destruction of the environment; the chapters in Posthumanist Others shows how the reimagination of the self and the world that posthumanism offers may be an opportunity to break the hold that oppressive systems have over the ways in which societies are constructed and governed. Antonio Cordoba is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Manhattan College, USA. His main area of specialization is Latin American and Iberian science fiction. He has published Extranjero en tierra extrana?: El genero de la ciencia ficcion en America Latina (2011) and published articles and book chapters on Latin American and Spanish science fiction and horror. Emily A. Maguire is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University, USA, where she specializes in literature of the Hispanic Caribbean and its diasporas. The author of Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography (2011; 2nd edition, 2018), her articles have appeared in Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, Small Axe, A Contracorriente, ASAP/Journal, and Revista Iberoamericana, among other places.
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Cordoba, Antonio (Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures), editor.
Maguire, Emily, 1972- editor.
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Studies in global science fiction.
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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
Chapter 7: Catfish and Nanobots: Invasive Species and Eco-critical Futures in Alejandro Rojas Medina's Chunga Maya
Rhetoric of Invasion: A Definitive War on Marabú
Clarias as Crisis and Solution
Works Cited
Part III: Posthuman Others
Chapter 8: Andean Cyborgs: Market and Indigeneity in Miguel Esquirol's "El Cementerio de Elefantes"
The Aparapita: He Who Carries the City on His Back
The Bolivian Market: Meeting Point of Social Classes and Cultures

Garbage and Resistance
Works Cited
Chapter 9: The Politics of Resistance in Brazil's Dystopian Thriller 3%
Introduction
Season 1: Biopolitics and Dystopia
Season 2: The Third Space-Biotechnology and Utopian Possibilities
References
Chapter 10: Bruja Theory: Latinidad Without Latinos in Popular Narratives of Brujería
References
Chapter 11: "A Mutant Faith": Science Fiction, Posthumanism, and Queer Futurity in Arca's KiCK Album Pentalogy
Arca and Queer Futurity
Mutants and Faith
Coda
References

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