‘All Cyborgs are Asian’: The Ethnic Implications of the Cyborg-topian Future in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Anime Wong
‘All Cyborgs are Asian’: The Ethnic Implications of the Cyborg-topian Future in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Anime Wong
Author(s): Amelia PrecupSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Academia Română – Centrul de Studii Transilvane
Keywords: Karen Tei Yamashita; Anime Wong; Asian-American literature; cyborg; posthumanism; ethnicity; race; techno-orientalism.
Summary/Abstract: This paper participates in the contemporary discussion about literary texts that speculate on the future(s) of humanity with a view to commenting on the fears, anxieties, and drawbacks of the present. It looks at Karen Tei Yamashita’s “Anime Wong” through the theoretical lenses of scholars debating the identity configuration model of a posthuman world in connection with the ethnoracial discourse.
Journal: Transylvanian Review
- Issue Year: XXVI/2017
- Issue No: Suppl 2
- Page Range: 247-256
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
