The Cyborg Caribbean : Techno-Dominance in Twenty-First-Century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican Science Fiction / Samuel Ginsburg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ginsburg, Samuel, author.

Series:

Critical Caribbean studies.

Critical Caribbean Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2023]

Summary:

The Cyborg Caribbean examines a wide range of twenty-first-century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican science fiction texts, arguing that authors from Pedro Cabiya, Alexandra Pagan-Velez, and Vagabond Beaumont to Yasmin Silvia Portales, Erick Mota, and Yoss, Haris Durrani, and Rita Indiana Hernandez, among others, negotiate rhetorical legacies of historical techno-colonialism and techno-authoritarianism. The authors 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, the book traces four different technologies-electroconvulsive therapy, nuclear weapons, space exploration, and digital avatars-that have transformed understandings of corporality and humanity in the Caribbean. By recognizing the ways that 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. .

Contents:

Cover

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: Broadcasting Resistance

1. Electroconvulsive Therapy: Treatment, Torture, and Electrified Bodies

2. Nuclear Weapons: Missiles, Radiation, and Archives

3. Space Exploration and Colonial Alienation

4. Disruptive Avatars and the Decoding of Caribbean Cyberspace

Conclusion: New Caribbean Futures

Acknowledgments

Notes

Works Cited

Index

About the Author

Series Titles.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-9788-3624-4

OCLC:

1410591522