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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: cyborg Caribbean
    sub title: techno-dominance in twenty-first-century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican science fiction
  name:
    name part: Ginsburg, Samuel
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 157 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Samuel Ginsburg.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Science fiction, Caribbean (Spanish)
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Caribbean fiction
    temporal: 21st century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Science fiction
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Technology in literature
  classification: PQ7361 .G56 2023
  classification: 863/.08762099729
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Critical Caribbean studies
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 221125
    record change date: 20230906143405.3
    record identifier: in00004736073