Technified Muses – Reconfiguring National Bodies in the Mexican Avant–Garde

Technified MusesReconfiguring National Bodies in the Mexican Avant-Garde\nAuthor(s): Sara A. Potter\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University Press of Florida, United States\nImprint: University Press of Florida\nISBN-13: 9781683404323, 978-1683404323\nSynopsis\nExamining representations of the female body in postrevolutionary genre literature\n\nIn this volume, Sara Potter uses the idea of the muse from Greek mythology and the cyborg from posthuman theory to consider the portrayal of female characters and their bodies in Mexican art and literature from the 1920s to the present. Examining genres including science fiction, cyberpunk, and popular fiction, Potter finds that technified muse figures often appear in these texts at moments of violence and sociopolitical transformation.\n\nPotter begins by looking at two avant-garde movements that emerged in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution: the Estridentistas and the Contemporneos.\n\nMoving to the Mexican Miracle, a midcentury period.