Cyborgs in Latin America [Hardcover]

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.Posthuman Porte?os: Cyborg Survivors in Argentine Narrative and Film * Missing Gender: The Posthuman Feminine in Alicia Borinsky, Carmen Boullosa, and Eugenia Prado * Ripped Stitches: Mass Media and Televisual Imaginaries in Rafael Courtoisie's Narrative * Neoliberal Prosthetics in Post-dictatorial Argentina and Bolivia: Carlos Gamerro and Edmundo Paz Sold?n * Video Heads and Rewound Bodies: Cyborg Memories in Rodrigo Fres?n and Alberto Fuguet   A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org .

J. Andrew Brown has taken the generic image of the cyborg and has convincingly shown its specific political and cultural uses by Latin American writers and filmmakers. His nuanced reading of recent artistic production finds in very diverse texts a profoundly human posthuman, one in which the critique of neoliberal policies in the 1990s collides with the realities of postdictatorship society and the awareness of the wonders and dangers of new technologies. This wonderful book argues that when Latin American artists were dreaming of cyborgs, they were not escaping a troubled continent - they were actually addressing head on its most pressing social and political issues. - Edmundo Paz Sold?n, Professor of Latin American Literature, Cornell University

Cyborgs in Latin America is a stunning book. Through J. Andrew Brown s engaging approach to film and narrative, the reader will discover the nuanced and complex relationships that stem from technology and metastasize into politics, media, economy, and gender in contemporary Latin America. Brown s profoundly researched text explores previously uncharted cartographiel3/