The female, the intertextual, and the transhuman in William Gibson’s Molly Millions
| Autor: | Collado Rodríguez, Francisco |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Zdroj: | Zaguán. Repositorio Digital de la Universidad de Zaragoza instname |
| Popis: | Considered the great guru of cyberpunk, William Gibson is also the creator of one of the most representative female icons of the genre, Molly Millions. An aggressive co-star in one of Gibson’s early narratives, “Johnny Mnemonic” (1981) and in his first novel, Neuromancer (1984), Molly finds herself at an intertextual, postfeminist, and post/transhuman crossroads. She emerges as a dangerous and empowered cyborg; without her, the rather weak Johnny, the male lead in the first story in which Molly appears, would have died. However, her condition makes her much more than a bodyguard. Through her role, Gibson also shows the hyperreal predictions of a dystopian world whose strongly naturalist context does not seem to offer this prototypical cyberpunk woman any outlet but a transhumanity for which she needs to update constantly her physical enhancements, inexorably related to her necessarily violent survival. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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