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Immigrant Sci-Fi Short Stories (Hardcover)
E. C. Osondu; Introduction by Betsy Huang; Edited by (associates) Sarah Rafael Garcia; Created by Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science)
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Tales from writers with Latinx, Caribbean, Asian, African, Arabic,
North American, East European origins, and more, challenge the
reader with stories that spill out into space, parallel realms or
just hidden in plain sight. The stories explore the world from the
perspective of the incoming, whether necessitated through war or
oppression, financial or familial need, or with hope for a better
future, examining visions of displacement and relocation in future
and speculative settings. New stories selected from open
submissions are set alongside classic sci-fi by the likes of Otto
(Eando) Binder and Zenna Henderson, modern stories by such authors
as Celu Amberstone and Ken Liu, and older, realist immigrant
narratives by Abraham Cahan, Sui Sin Far, Lee Yan Phou, Constantine
Panunzio and more. Complemented by a foreword by author E.C. Osondu
and an insightful introduction by Betsy Huang, Ph.D., this is an
intriguing view of the conflict and anxiety between the settled and
the unsettled. The Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy, Classic Stories and
Epic Tales collections bring together the entire range of myth,
folklore and modern short fiction. Highlighting the roots of
suspense, supernatural, science fiction and mystery stories, the
books in Flame Tree Collections series are beautifully presented,
perfect as a gift and offer a lifetime of reading pleasure.
Groundbreaking in its international, interdisciplinary, and
multi-professional approach to diversity and inclusion in higher
education, this volume puts theory in conversation with practice,
articulates problems, and suggests deep-structured strategies from
multiple perspectives including performed art, education,
dis/ability studies, institutional as well as government policy,
health humanities, history, jurisprudence, psychology, race and
ethnicity studies, and semiotic theory. The authors-originating
from Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Trinidad, Turkey, and the US-
invite readers to join the conversation and sustain the work.
Groundbreaking in its international, interdisciplinary, and
multi-professional approach to diversity and inclusion in higher
education, this volume puts theory in conversation with practice,
articulates problems, and suggests deep-structured strategies from
multiple perspectives including performed art, education,
dis/ability studies, institutional as well as government policy,
health humanities, history, jurisprudence, psychology, race and
ethnicity studies, and semiotic theory. The authors-originating
from Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Trinidad, Turkey, and the US-
invite readers to join the conversation and sustain the work.
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.
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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