Latin American cyberculture and cyberliterature / edited by Claire Taylor and Thea Pitman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taylor, Claire, 1972- editor.

Pitman, Thea, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cyberspace--Social aspects--Latin America.

Cyberspace.

Latin American literature--21st century.

Latin American literature.

Computers and civilization.

Literature and the Internet.

Internet--Social aspects--Latin America.

Internet.

Latin America--Social life and customs.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Latin American Cyberculture & Cyberliterature

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of critical essays investigates an emergent and increasingly important field of cultural production in Latin America: cyberliterature and cyberculture in their varying manifestations, including blogs and hypertext narratives, collective novels and e-mags, digital art and short Net-films. Highly innovative in its conception, this book provides the first sustained academic focus on this area of cultural production, and investigates the ways in which cyberliterature and cyberculture in the broadest sense are providing new configurations of subjects, narrative voices, and even political agency, for Latin Americans. The volume is divided into two main sections. The first comprises eight chapters on the broad area of cyberculture and identity formation/preservation including the development of different types of cybercommunities in Latin America. While many of the chapters applaud the creative potential of these new virtual communities, identities and cultural products to create networks across boundaries and offer new contestatory strategies, they also consider whether such phenomena may risk reinforcing existing social inequalities or perpetuate conservatism. The second section comprises six chapters and an afterword that deal with the nature of cyberliterature in all its many forms, from the (cyber)cultural legacies of writers such as Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges, to traditional print literature from the region that reflects on the subject of new technology, to weblogs and hypertext and hypermedia fiction proper.

Contents:

I. Cyberculture and cybercommunities. The new Latin American cinema : Cortometrajes on the internet / Debra A. Castillo

Cyborgs, cities, and celluloid : memory machines in two Latin American cyborg films / Geoffrey Kantaris

The cyberart of corpos informáticos / Margaret Anne Clarke

Latin American cyberprotest : before and after the Zapatistas / Thea Pitman

Body, nation, and identity : Guillermo Gómez-Peña's performances on the web / Niamh Thornton

Cyberspace neighbourhood : the virtual construction of Capão Redondo / Lúcia Sá

Literary e-magazines in Latin America : from textual criticism to virtual communities / Shoshannah Holdom

Negotiating a (border literary) community online en le línea / Paul Fallon. II. Cyberliterature : avatars and aficionados.

Posthumanism in the work of Jorge Luis Borges / Stefan Herbrechter and Ivan Callus

Julio Cortázar's Rayuela and the challenges of cyberliterature / Rob Rix

Contemporary Brazilian fiction : between screens and printed pages / Ana Cláudia Viegas

Creative processes in hypermedia literature : single purpose, multiple authors / Doménico Chiappe

Hypertext in context : space and time in the hypertext and hypermedia fictions of Blas Valdez and Doménico Chiappe / Thea Pitman

Virtual bodies in cyberspace : Guzik Glantz's weblog / Claire Taylor

A cyberliterary afterword : of blogs and other matters / Edmundo Paz Soldán. Conclusion :

Latin American identity and cyberspace / Claire Taylor and Thea Pitman.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781781387016

178138701X

9781846313462

1846313465

OCLC:

476209258