Isiah Lavender III's Dis-Orienting Planets amplifies critical
issues surrounding the racial and ethnic dimensions of science
fiction. This edited volume explores depictions of Asia and Asians
in science fiction literature, film, and fandom with particular
regard to China, Japan, India, and Korea. Dis-Orienting Planets
highlights so-called yellow and brown peoples from the
constellation of a historically white genre. The collection
launches into political representations of Asian identityin science
fiction's imagination, from fear of the yellow peril and its racist
stereotypes to techno-orientalism and the remains of a
post-colonial heritage. Thus the essays, by contributors such as
Takayuki Tatsumi, Veronica Hollinger, Uppinder Mehan, and Stephen
Hong Sohn, reconfigure the very study of race in science fiction. A
follow-up to Lavender's Black and Brown Planets, this new
collection expands the racial politics governing the renewed
visibility of Asia in science fiction. One of the few on this
subject, the volume probes Gary Shteyngart's novel Super Sad True
Love Story, the acclaimed film Cloud Atlas, and Guillermo del
Toro's monsterfilm Pacific Rim, among others. Dis-Orienting Planets
embarks on a wide-ranging assessment of Asian representations in
science fiction, upon the determination that our visions of the
future must include all people of color. With contributions by:
Suparno Banerjee, Cait Coker, Jeshua Enriquez, Joan Gordon,
Veronica Hollinger, Malisa Kurtz, Stephanie Li, Bradford Lyau,
Uppinder Mehan, Graham J. Murphy, Baryon Tensor Posadas, Amy J.
Ransom, Robin Anne Reid, Haerin Shin, Stephen Hong Sohn, Takayuki
Tatsumi, and Timothy J. Yamamura.
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