Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead : The Body in Mexican and Brazilian Speculative Fiction /

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"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, cultur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ginway, M. Elizabeth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy
Monsters in literature
Human body in literature
Gender identity in literature
Comparative literature > Mexican and Brazilian.
Comparative literature > Brazilian and Mexican.
Gender identity in literature.
Monsters in literature.
Human body in literature.
Speculative fiction, Brazilian > History and criticism.
Speculative fiction, Mexican > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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