Science Fiction and Digital Technologies in Argentine and Brazilian Culture
Author:   E. King
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2013
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9781349464166


Pages:   242
Publication Date:   10 December 2015
Format:   Paperback
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Science Fiction and Digital Technologies in Argentine and Brazilian Culture


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Fictional narratives produced in Latin America often borrow tropes from contemporary science fiction to examine the shifts in the nature of power in neoliberal society. King examines how this leads towards a market-governed control society and also explores new models of agency beyond that of the individual.

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Author:   E. King
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2013
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   3.261kg
ISBN:  

9781349464166


ISBN 10:   1349464163
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   10 December 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Espiritismo Digital in Cyberfiction from Brazil 2. Race and the Digital Body in Cyberfiction from Brazil 3. Cruz diablo: Cyberspace as Frontier 4. Distributed Agency in Marcelo Cohen's Casa de Ottro 5. Memory and Affective Technologies in the Argentine Comic Book Series Cybersix 6. Prosthetic Memory and the Disruption of Affective Control in the Graphic Fiction of Lourenço Mutarelli

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Edward King is a lecturer in Portuguese at Bristol University, UK and a former Junior Research Fellow at St Catharine s College, University of Cambridge, UK.

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