Techno-Orientalism

DAVID S. ROH is an assistant professor of American literature and digital humanities at Old Dominion University. He is the author of Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity. BETSY HUANG is an associate professor of English and chief officer of Diversity and Inclusion at Clark University. She is the author of Contesting Genres in Contemporary Asian American Fiction.  GRETA A. NIU earned her Ph.D. in English from Duke University and has taught at SUNY Brockport, University of Rochester, and St. John Fisher College.  

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