Techno-Orientalism : Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media.
Title:
Techno-Orientalism : Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media.
Author:
Roh, David S.
ISBN:
9780813570655
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (270 pages)
Series:
Asian American Studies Today
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Technologizing Orientalism -- Chapter 1: Demon Courage and Dread Engines -- Chapter 2: "Out of the Glamorous, Mystic East" -- Chapter 3: Looking Backward, from 2019 to 1882 -- Chapter 4: Queer Excavations -- Chapter 5: I, Stereotype -- Chapter 6: The Mask of Fu Manchu, Son of Sinbad, and Star Wars IV: A New Hope -- Chapter 7: Racial Speculations -- Chapter 8: Never Stop Playing -- Chapter 9: "Home Is Where the War Is" -- Chapter 10: Thinking about Bodies, Souls, and Race in Gibson's Bridge Trilogy -- Chapter 11: Reimagining Asian Women in Feminist Post-Cyberpunk Science Fiction -- Chapter 12: The Cruel Optimism of Asian Futurity and the Reparative Practices of Sonny Liew's Malinky Robot -- Chapter 13: Palimpsestic Orientalisms and Antiblackness -- Chapter 14: "How Does It Not Know What It Is?" -- Chapter 15: A Poor Man from a Poor Country -- Desiring Machines, Repellant Subjects -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in literary, cinematic, and new media representations, while critically examining the stereotype of Asians as both technologically advanced and intellectually primitive, in dire need of Western consciousness-raising.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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