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Techno-Orientalism - Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media (Paperback)
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Techno-Orientalism - Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media (Paperback)
Series: Asian American Studies Today
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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. 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. 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. Fu Manchu to
Firefly.Applying a variety of theoretical, historical, and
interpretive approaches, the contributors consider
techno-orientalism a truly global phenomenon. 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. Yet the book also examines artists who have
appropriated techno-orientalist tropes in order to critique racist
and imperialist attitudes. 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.
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.
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