What will the future look like? To judge from many Speculative Fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas , 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.
John Fisher College.. in English from Duke University and has taught at SUNY Brockport, University of Rochester, and St.
NIU earned her Ph.
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GRETA A.
She is the author of Contesting Genres in Contemporary Asian American Fiction .
BETSY HUANG is an associate professor of English and chief officer of Diversity and Inclusion at Clark University.
He is the author of Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity .
ROH is an assistant professor of American literature and digital humanities at Old Dominion University.
About the Author: DAVID S.
With essays on subjects ranging from wartime rhetoric of race and technology to science Fiction by contemporary Asian American writers to the cultural implications of Korean gamers, this volume offers innovative perspectives and broadens conventional discussions in Asian American Cultural studies.
Techno-Orientalism is the first collection to define and critically analyze a phenomenon that pervades both science Fiction and real-world news coverage of Asia.
Yet the book also examines artists who have appropriated techno-orientalist tropes in order to critique racist and imperialist attitudes.
In part, they tackle the key question of how these stereotypes serve to both express and assuage Western anxieties about Asia\'s growing cultural influence and economic dominance.
Applying a variety of theoretical, historical, and interpretive approaches, the contributors consider techno-orientalism a truly global phenomenon.
Fu Manchu to Firefly .
The collection\'s fourteen original essays trace the discourse of techno-orientalism across a wide array of media, from radio serials to cyberpunk novels, from Sax Rohmer\'s Dr.
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.
What will the future look like? To judge from many Speculative Fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas , 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