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Posthumanism and the graphic novel in Latin America / Edward King and Joanna Page.
Van Pelt Library PN6790.L29 K56 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- King, Edward, 1981- author.
- Page, Joanna, 1974- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Graphic novels--Latin America--History and criticism.
- Graphic novels.
- Science fiction comic books, strips, etc--Latin America--History and criticism.
- Science fiction comic books, strips, etc.
- Latin America.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 252 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : UCL Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Latin America is Experiencing a Boom in Graphic Novels that are highly innovative in their conceptual play and their reworking of the medium. Inventive artwork and sophisticated scripts have combined to satisfy the demand of a growing readership, both at home and abroad. Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America, which is the first book-length study of the topic, argues that the graphic novel is emerging in Latin America as a uniquely powerful force to explore the nature of twenty-first century subjectivity. The authors place particular emphasis on the ways in which humans are bound to their non-human environment, and these ideas are productively drawn out in relation to posthuman thought and experience. The book draws together a range of recent graphic novels from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay, many of which experiment with questions of transmediality, the representation of urban space, modes of perception and cognition, and a new form of ethics for a posthuman world. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 (Post)humanism and Technocapitalist Modernity 23
- 2 Modernity and the (Re)enchantment of the World 45
- 3 Archaeologies of Media and the Baroque 84
- 4 Steampunk, Cyberpunk and the Ethics of Embodiment 109
- 5 Urban Topologies and Posthuman Assemblages 137
- 6 Post-Anthropocentric Ecologies and Embodied Cognition 163
- 7 Intermediality and Graphic Novel as Performance 182.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-245) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1911576453
- 9781911576457
- 9781911576464
- 1911576461
- OCLC:
- 989702666
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