- Full Description
- More Information
- Author Biography
- Customer Reviews
In Cyborgs, Sexuality, and the Undead, M. Elizabeth Ginway examines all these issues from a number of theoretical perspectives, most importantly through the lens of BolÍvar EcheverrÍa's "baroque ethos," which emphasizes the strategies that subaltern populations may adopt in order to survive and prosper in the face of massive historical and structural disadvantages. Foucault's concept of biopolitics is developed in discussion with Roberto Esposito's concept of immunity and Giorgio Agamben's distinction between 'political life' and 'bare life.'
This book will be of interest to scholars of speculative fiction, as well as Mexicanists and Brazilianists in history, literary studies, and critical theory.
Reviews
"An extremely useful contribution to the field. It builds on existing scholarship on the literature of national identity, monstrosity, gender studies, critical race studies, disability studies, Latin American science fiction and horror, and posthumanism, drawing on an incredibly broad corpus from the mid-twentieth century to the present." –Persephone Braham, author of From Amazons to Zombies: Monsters in Latin America
Pages | 246 |
---|---|
Dimensions | 229 x 152 |
Date Published | 30 Dec 2020 |
Publisher | Vanderbilt University Press |
Subject/s | Ethical issues & debates   Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers   Literary companions   |