| Descript |
x, 267 pages ; 24 cm |
| 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 |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Science fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Science fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Asians in literature
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Race in literature
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Asia -- In literature
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| Alt Author |
Lavender, Isiah, III, editor
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| LC CARD # |
2016036167 |
| ISBN |
9781496811523 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper) |
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1496811526 (hardcover ;) (alkaline paper) |
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9781496811547 (electronic book) |
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9781496811554 (electronic book) |
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9781496811561 (electronic book) |
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