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techno-dominance in twenty-first-century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican science fiction
The Cyborg Caribbean examines 21st-century Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican science fiction texts, arguing that these authors negotiate rhetorical legacies of historical techno-colonialism and techno-authoritarianism. The authors studied span the Hispanic Caribbean and their respective diasporas, reflecting how science fiction as a genre has the ability to manipulate political borders. As both a literary and historical study, it traces histories of four different technologies, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), nuclear weapons, space exploration and digital avatars, that have transformed understandings of corporality and humanity in the Caribbean. These texts opt for a posthumanist understanding of hypertechnology that sees the blurred line between body and machine as an opportunity for destabilizing normative binaries. By recognizing the ways in which increased technology may amplify the marginalization of bodies based on race, gender, sexuality and other factors, the science fiction texts studied in this book challenge oppressive narratives that link technological and sociopolitical progress.
Introduction: Broadcasting resistance -- Electroconvulsive therapy: treatment, torture, and electrified bodies -- Nuclear weapons: missiles, radiation, and archives -- Space exploration and colonial alienation -- Disruptive avatars and the decoding of cyberspace -- Conclusion: New Caribbean futures.
Includes bibliographical references and index.