Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America
Edward King and Joanna Page
'...well-referenced and… well considered - the analyses it
brings are overall well-executed and insightful...'
Image and Narrative
'this monograph sprawls in its scope and shines in its accomplishments.'
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Edward King is Lecturer in Portuguese at the University of Bristol and the author of Science Fiction and Digital Technologies in Argentine and Brazilian Culture (2013) and Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture (2015). Joanna Page is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Cambridge and the author of Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema (2009), Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature (2014) and Science Fiction in Argentina: Technologies of the Text in a Material Multiverse (2016).
Introduction
1. (Post)humanism and Technocapitalist Modernity
2. Modernity and the (Re)enchantment of the World
3. Archaeologies of Media and the Baroque
4. Steampunk, Cyberpunk and the Ethics of Embodiment
5. Urban Topologies and Posthuman Assemblages
6. Post-Anthropocentric Ecologies and Embodied Cognition
7. Intermediality and Graphic Novel as Performance
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
‘Scholars of posthumanism and sf graphic novels alike will benefit from the rigorous theoretical treatment, the enlightening close textual readings, as well as the comprehensive engagement with extant contemporary criticism.’
Science Fiction Studies
‘The rigour applied to visual culture analysis, the new pathways opened through post-humanist theory and the insightful critique to contemporary Latin-American societies through the graphic novels analysed, make this book a seminal contribution in the field.’
Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies
'this monograph sprawls in its scope and shines in its accomplishments.'
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
'...well-referenced and… well considered - the analyses it brings are overall well-executed and insightful...'
Image and Narrative, Jan 2018, vol 18, no 4
Format: Paperback
Size: 234 × 156 mm
264 Pages
ISBN: 9781911576464
Publication: July 03, 2017
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