Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead The Body in Mexican and Brazilian Speculative Fiction

M. Elizabeth Ginway, "Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead: The Body in Mexican and Brazilian Speculative Fiction"
English | ISBN: 0826501184 | 2020 | 246 pages | EPUB | 362 KB
Writers in Brazil and Mexico discovered early on that speculative fiction provides an ideal platform for addressing the complex issues of modernity, yet the study of speculative fictions rarely strays from the United States and England. Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead expands the traditional purview of speculative fiction in all its incarnations (science fiction, fantasy, horror) beyond the traditional Anglo-American context to focus on work produced in Mexico and Brazil across a historical overview from 1870 to the present. The book portrays the effects-and ravages-of modernity in these two nations, addressing its technological, cultural, and social consequences and their implications for the human body.