Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America
Edward King (Author), Joanna Page (Author)
Latin America is experiencing a boom in graphic novels that are highly innovative in their conceptual play and their reworking of the medium. Inventive artwork and sophisticated scripts have combined to satisfy the demand of a growing readership, both at home and abroad. Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America, which is the first book-length study of the topic, argues that the graphic novel is emerging in Latin America as a uniquely powerful force to explore the nature of twenty-first century subjectivity. The authors place particular emphasis on the ways in which humans are bound to their non-human environment, and these ideas are productively drawn out in relation to posthuman thought and experience. The book draws together a range of recent graphic novels from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay, many of which experiment with questions of transmediality, the representation of urban space, modes of perception and cognition, and a new form of ethics for a posthuman world.
Praise for Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America
‘Challenging and rewarding … the printed edition is excellently illustrated.’ Journal of Latin American Studies
‘[An] original contribution’ … allows to point out the growth and maturity of the field of studies about comics in Latin America.’
Latin American Research Review
‘Marshals an impressive range of posthumanist theories to provide a rich analysis …An outstanding book that makes a major contribution to scholarship on graphic novels and to the nascent but rapidly growing body of work on Latin American posthumanism.’Bulletin of Latin American Research
‘An alternative exploration of posthumanity …that concentrates on the physicality of the environment around humans, not just the traditional merging of the organic and mechanical.’
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
‘Well-referenced and… well considered – the analyses it brings are overall well-executed and insightful.’
Image and Narrative, Jan 2018, vol 18, no 4
‘This monograph sprawls in its scope and shines in its accomplishments.’
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Introduction
1. (Post)humanism and Technocapitalist Modernity
2. Modernity and the (Re)enchantment of the World
3. Archaeologies of Media and the Baroque
4. Steampunk, Cyberpunk and the Ethics of Embodiment
5. Urban Topologies and Posthuman Assemblages
6. Post-Anthropocentric Ecologies and Embodied Cognition
7. Intermediality and Graphic Novel as Performance
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
DOI: 10.14324/111.9781911576501
Number of pages: 264
Number of illustrations: 72
Publication date: 03 July 2017
PDF ISBN: 9781911576501
EPUB ISBN: 9781911576495
Hardback ISBN: 9781911576457
Paperback ISBN: 9781911576464
Edward King (Author)
Edward King is Lecturer in Portuguese at the University of Bristol and the author of Science Fiction and Digital Technologies in Argentine and Brazilian Culture (2013) and Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture (2015).
Joanna Page (Author) 
Joanna Page is Reader in Latin American Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Cambridge. Her most recent books are Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America (co-authored with Edward King) and Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America (co-edited with María del Pilar Blanco).
‘Well-referenced and… well considered – the analyses it brings are overall well-executed and insightful.’
Image and Narrative, Jan 2018, vol 18, no 4
‘This monograph sprawls in its scope and shines in its accomplishments.’
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
‘The rigour applied to visual culture analysis, the new pathways opened through post-humanist theory and the insightful critique to contemporary Latin-American societies through the graphic novels analysed, make this book a seminal contribution in the field.’
Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies
‘Scholars of posthumanism and sf graphic novels alike will benefit from the rigorous theoretical treatment, the enlightening close textual readings, as well as the comprehensive engagement with extant contemporary criticism.’
Science Fiction Studies
‘An alternative exploration of posthumanity …that concentrates on the physicality of the environment around humans, not just the traditional merging of the organic and mechanical.’
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
‘Marshals an impressive range of posthumanist theories to provide a rich analysis … An outstanding book that makes a major contribution to scholarship on graphic novels and to the nascent but rapidly growing body of work on Latin American posthumanism.’ Bulletin of Latin American Research
‘[An] original contribution’ … allows to point out the growth and maturity of the field of studies about comics in Latin America.’
Latin American Research Review
‘Challenging and rewarding … the printed edition is excellently illustrated.’
Journal of Latin American Studies
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