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Informationen zum Autor Roh, David S. Klappentext What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo and Shanghai, and it will be populated 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Technologizing Orientalism: An Introduction Part I Iterations & Instantiations Chapter 1 Demon Courage and Dread Engines: America’s Reaction to the Russo-Japanese War and the Genesis of the Japanese Invasion Sublime Chapter 2 “Out of the Glamorous, Mystic East”: Techno-Orientalism in Early Twentieth-Century United States Radio Broadcasting Chapter 3 Looking Backward from 2019 to 1882: Reading the Dystopias of Future Multiculturalism in the Utopias of Asian Exclusion Chapter 4 Queer Excavations: Technology, Temporality, Race Chapter 5 I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley Chapter 6 The Mask of Fu Manchu, Son of Sinbad, and Star Wars IV: A New Hope: Techno-Orientalist Cinema as an Mnemotechnics of 20th Century U.S.-Asian Conflicts Chapter 7 Racial Speculations: (Bio)Technology, Battlestar Galactica, and Mixed-Race Imagining Chapter 8 “Never Stop Playing”: StarCraft and Asian Gamer Death Chapter 9 “Home Is Where the War Is”: Remaking Techno-Orientalist Militarism on the Homefront Part II Reappropriations & Recuperations Chapter 10 Thinking about Bodies, Souls, and Race in Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy Chapter 11 Re-imagining Asian Women in Feminist Post-Cyberpunk Science Fiction Chapter 12 The Cruel Optimism of Asian Futurity and the Reparative Practices of Sonny Liew’s Malinky Robot Chapter 13 Palimpsestic Orientalisms and Antiblackness: Or, Joss Whedon’s “grand vision of an Asian/American tomorrow” Chapter 14 “How Does It Not Know What It Is?”: The Techno-Orientalized Body in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Larissa Lai’s Automaton Biographies Chapter 15 “A Poor Man from a Poor Country”: Nam June Paik, TV-Buddha, and the Techno-Orientalist Lens Desiring Machines, Repellant Subjects: A Conclusion Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index ...
