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Both Puig and Piglia use cyborg women as the sites upon which their dictatorial and postdictatorial narratives are enacted, the altered female bodies functioning simultaneously as a storyteller and text. When we turn to those relatively few Latin American women writers who have explored posthuman identity, we find a disparate collection of narratives that strengthen, challenge, and reinvent theories of posthuman subjectivity and cyborg representation. While North American and European theorists have adopted the cyborg figure as a powerful element of feminist thinking, Latin American narratives with explicitly feminist perspectives have problematized the posthuman subject on several levels. Indeed, three novels in particular examine the cyborg figure from a variety of perspectives, some upholding the tenets of North American and European posthuman theory as in the case of Alicia Borinsky’s Cine continuado (1998), some providing very different views of cyborg identity as in the case of Carmen Boullosa’s Cielos de la tierra (1997) or Eugenia Prado’s Lóbulo (1998). In all cases we see a clear exploration of gender identity and posthuman being that is absent from much of the work we have studied or will study in male-authored narratives.
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Brown, J.A. (2010). Missing Gender: The Posthuman Feminine in Alicia Borinsky, Carmen Boullosa, and Eugenia Prado. In: Cyborgs in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230109773_3
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