Technified Muses: Reconfiguring National Bodies in the Mexican Avant-Garde

Examining representations of the female body in postrevolutionary genre literature

In 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...