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Alexandra Pagan-Velez
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contemporary
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cuba
culture
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digital avatars
dominican
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electroconvulsive therapy
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Erick Mota
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Haris Durrani
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Pedro Cabiya
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Rita Indiana Hernandez
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science fiction
softlaunch
space exploration
Vagabond Beaumont
Yasmin Silvia Portales
Product details
- ISBN 9781978836228
- Weight: 172g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Aug 2023
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
SAMUEL GINSBURG is an assistant professor of Spanish, comparative ethnic studies, and American studies at Washington State University’s School of Languages, Cultures, and Race.
