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The Cyborg Caribbean

Ginsburg, Samuel

2023

Overview

Finalist for the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award from the Caribbean Studies Association 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.

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Subject: Alexandra Pagan-Velez / boricua / Caribbean / contemporary / cuba / culture / digital avatars / dominican / dominican republic / electroconvulsive therapy / Erick Mota / genre / Haris Durrani / hispanic / latina / latino / latinx / LITERARY CRITICISM / LITERARY CRITICISM / General / LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy / literary studies / literature / nuclear weapons / Pedro Cabiya / puerto rican cuban / Rita Indiana Hernandez / Rita Indiana Hernandez, book / sci-fi / Science fiction / space exploration / Vagabond Beaumont / Yasmin Silvia Portales
• ISBN: 1978836244, 9781978836242, 1978836228, 9781978836228