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Robo sacer : necroliberalism and cyborg resistance in Mexican and Chicanx dystopias /
The resistant potential that arises when the oppressed use technology to undermine the social hierarchies inherent to global capitalism.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Nashville, Tennessee :
Vanderbilt University Press,
[2023]
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| Colección: | Critical Mexican studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Defining the robo sacer in a necroliberal world
- 1. Reimagining the sanctity of expendable life: Necroliberal markets and secularly holy cyborgs in Cherrie Moraga's Heroes and Saints and Guillermo del Toro's Cronos
- 2. Existing in the necroliberal order online: Robo-sacer subjectivity in Pepe Rojo's "Ruido Gris" and Ernest Hogan's Smoking Mirror Blues
- 3. Hacking the bios: Disposable braceros and bare life in Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer and Rosaura Sanchez and Beatrice Pita's Lunar Braceros 2125-2148
- 4. Robo-sacer resistance and feminicide: Gabriela Damian Miravete's "Sonaran en el jardin" and Carlos Carrera and Sabina Berman's Backyard/El traspatio
- 5. Guns, narcos, and low-tech cyborgs: Magical realism, SF, and the posthuman in Julio Hernandez Cordon's Comprame un revolver and Rudolfo Anaya's ChupaCabra Trilogy
- Conclusion: The limits of robo-sacer resistance.