Overview
- Includes essays on US, Mexico, the Caribbean, the Andean region, Brazil, and the Southern cone
- Studies literature, film, and TV at the intersection of posthumanism and speculative art
- Demonstrates that the texts can be understood as sources of Latinx thought in their own right
Part of the book series: Studies in Global Science Fiction (SGSF)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Posthuman Subjects
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Slow Violence and Posthuman Environments
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Posthuman Others
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About this book
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 thatoppressive systems have over the ways in which societies are constructed and governed.
Reviews
—Edward King, Associate Professor, University of Bristol, UK
“This book explores for the first time Latin American posthumanism from the Global South. It is a proposal that appeals to us from the point of view of (techno)(cyber) corporealities that form the normative world-systems of globalization and offer dissident alternatives. A collection of brilliant essays that offer a melting pot of categories and typologies of science fiction, from neoliberal posthumanism to feminist critical posthumanism. A lucid reflection on inequalities based on ethnicity, class, gender, sex and sexuality. A publication of reference that shows that the heartbeat of the twenty-first century is posthuman, and that everything posthuman is political.”
—Teresa López-Pellisa, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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 Hispánicos, Small Axe, A Contracorriente, ASAP/Journal, and Revista Iberoamericana, among other places.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Posthumanism and Latin(x) American Science Fiction
Editors: Antonio Córdoba, Emily A. Maguire
Series Title: Studies in Global Science Fiction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11791-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11790-9Published: 25 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11793-0Published: 25 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11791-6Published: 23 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2569-8826
Series E-ISSN: 2569-8834
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 257
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Latin American/Caribbean Literature, Fiction, Latin American Cinema and TV, Latin American Culture