@article{ART002890175},
author={Sunyoung Kim},
title={Posthumanism and Cyborg Hybridity in Carmen Boullosa’s Cielos de la tierra and La novela perfecta},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2022},
volume={67},
pages={31-56}
TY - JOUR
AU - Sunyoung Kim
TI - Posthumanism and Cyborg Hybridity in Carmen Boullosa’s Cielos de la tierra and La novela perfecta
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2022
VL - 67
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 31
EP - 56
SN - 1598-0685
AB - Mexican novelist Carmen Boullosa's Cielos de la tierra (1997) and La novela perfecta (2006) reflect the ambivalence of human in the post-human era. The novels explore the positive value of the post-human as a complex, multifaceted, and fluid subject, highlighting the cyborg's hybridity while containing the risk that control might be given to the machine, the moment machine and human are physically merged. While the traditional human body symbolizes sexual polarization and gender dichotomy based on Eurocentrism, the hybridity of cyborg decolonizes the subject in the domination of dualism. This paper focuses on how the 'hybridity' of cyborg represents the transitional state of the human-machine union and discusses the balance between the technological others and human. Also, this paper examines how cyborgs blurred the boundary between material and immaterial and how the hybrid body changed the symbolic meaning of the biological body of humans. Lastly, this paper illustrates the distinction between human and machines through historical and creative writing to find the unique values of human in the post-human era.
KW - Carmen Boullosa;posthuman;cyborg;hybridity
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Sunyoung Kim. (2022). Posthumanism and Cyborg Hybridity in Carmen Boullosa’s Cielos de la tierra and La novela perfecta. Cross-Cultural Studies, 67, 31-56.
Sunyoung Kim. 2022, "Posthumanism and Cyborg Hybridity in Carmen Boullosa’s Cielos de la tierra and La novela perfecta", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.67, pp.31-56.
Sunyoung Kim "Posthumanism and Cyborg Hybridity in Carmen Boullosa’s Cielos de la tierra and La novela perfecta" Cross-Cultural Studies 67 pp.31-56 (2022) : 31.
Sunyoung Kim. Posthumanism and Cyborg Hybridity in Carmen Boullosa’s Cielos de la tierra and La novela perfecta. 2022; 67 31-56.
Sunyoung Kim. "Posthumanism and Cyborg Hybridity in Carmen Boullosa’s Cielos de la tierra and La novela perfecta" Cross-Cultural Studies 67(2022) : 31-56.
Sunyoung Kim. Posthumanism and Cyborg Hybridity in Carmen Boullosa’s Cielos de la tierra and La novela perfecta. Cross-Cultural Studies, 67, 31-56.
Sunyoung Kim. Posthumanism and Cyborg Hybridity in Carmen Boullosa’s Cielos de la tierra and La novela perfecta. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2022; 67 31-56.
Sunyoung Kim. Posthumanism and Cyborg Hybridity in Carmen Boullosa’s Cielos de la tierra and La novela perfecta. 2022; 67 31-56.
Sunyoung Kim. "Posthumanism and Cyborg Hybridity in Carmen Boullosa’s Cielos de la tierra and La novela perfecta" Cross-Cultural Studies 67(2022) : 31-56.
