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Title:
Dis-orienting planets : racial representations of Asia in science fiction / edited by Isiah Lavender III.
Publisher:
University Press of Mississippi,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
x, 267 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Science fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Science fiction--21st0th century--History and criticism.
Asians in literature.
Race in literature.
Asia--In literature.
Other Authors:
Lavender, Isiah, III, editor.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: coloring outside science fiction's lines / Isiah Lavender III -- First encounters. "Great Wall planet": estrangements of Chinese science fiction / Veronica Hollinger -- Race and black humor: from a planetary perspective / Takayuki Tatsumi -- India and Indians in SF by Indians and others / Uppinder Mehan -- "Perpetual war": Korean American speculative fiction, militarized technogeometries, and Yoon Ha Lee's "wine" / Stephen Hong Sohn -- Fear of a yellow planet. Yellow perils: M.P. Shiel, race, and the Far East menace / Amy J. Ransom -- Fictions of science, American Orientalism, and the alien/Asian of Percival Lowell / Timothy J. Yamamura -- Techno-orientalism and the end of history in Gary Shteyngart's super sad true love story / Stephanie Li -- "Race as technology" and the Asian body in The Bohr maker and Salt fish girl / Malisa Kurtz -- Engineering the techno-orient: the hyperrealization of post-racial politics in Cloud atlas / Haerin Shin -- Beyond techno-orientalism: virtual worlds and identity tourism in Japanese cyberpunk / Baryon Tensor Posadas -- Many paths, one journey: Cixin Liu's three body problem novels / Bradford Lyau -- Crossing the threshold of b-mor: instrumental commodification and the model minority in Chang-rae Lee's On such a full sea / Jeshua Enriquez -- Dis-orienting planets. Bending culture: racebending.com's protests against media whitewashing / Robin Anne Reid -- The Mako Mori Fan Club / Cait Coker -- India, geopolitics, and future wars / Suparno Banerjee -- Entanglement and dis-entanglement in Vandana Singh's short fiction / Graham J. Murphy -- Intersubjectivity and cultural exchange in Kij Johnson's novels of Japan / Joan Gordon.
ISBN:
1496811526
9781496811523
OCLC:
(OCoLC)962552472
LCCN:
2016036167
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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