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Dis-orienting planets : racial representations of Asia in science fiction

Title
Dis-orienting planets : racial representations of Asia in science fiction / edited by Isiah Lavender III.
ISBN
9781496811523
1496811526
9781496811547
9781496811554
9781496811561
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2017.
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
x, 267 pages ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 19, 2017
Bibliography
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.
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