Cyborgs in Latin America

From the late nineteenth century, robots and artificial humans
have gathered at the periphery of Latin American cultural
production. Eduardo Holmberg's robots from his 1879 novella
Horacio Kalibang o los autómatas took center stage in the work
of an author who never arrived at the center of Argentina's literary circles. A couple of decades later, Horacio Quiroga, an author whose production has an important place in the Latin American literary canon, kept his novella Hombre artificial (1909) at the edge of his own oeuvre, publishing it as a serial under a pseudonym.
[2010]

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