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Books by Seo-Young Chu
  | | Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation by Seo-Young Chu Hardcover, 316 Pages, Published 2010 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-05517-9, ISBN: 0-674-05517-9 "In culture and scholarship, science-fictional worlds are perceived as unrealistic and altogether imaginary. Seo-Young Chu offers a bold challenge to this perception of the genre, arguing instead that science fiction is a form of 'high-intensity realism' capable of representing non-imaginary objects that elude more traditional, 'realist' modes of representation. Powered by lyric forces that allow it to transcend the dichotomy between the ..." |
 | | Techno-Orientalism Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media (Asian American Studies Today) by Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, David S. Roh, Jason Crum, Victor Bascara, Warren Liu, Kenneth Hough, Jinny Huh, Steve Choe, Dylan Yeats, Kathryn Allan, Aimee Bahng, Catherine Fung, Charles Park, Seo-Young Chu, Abigail De Kosnik, Se Young Kim, Julie Ha Tran, Douglas S. Ishii, Tzarina T. Prater Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2015 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-7063-1, ISBN: 0-8135-7063-8 "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 repre ..." |
 | | Techno-Orientalism Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media (Asian American Studies Today) by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, Seo-Young Chu, Kenneth Hough, Jason Crum, Victor Bascara, Warren Liu, Abigail De Kosnik, Jinny Huh, Steve Choe, Se Young Kim, Dylan Yeats, Julie Ha Tran, Kathryn Allan, Aimee Bahng, Douglas S. Ishii, Tzarina T. Prater, Catherine Fung, Charles Park Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2015 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-7064-8, ISBN: 0-8135-7064-6 "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 repre ..." |
 | | Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation by Seo-Young Chu 316 Pages, Published 2011 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-05922-1, ISBN: 0-674-05922-0 "Seo-Young Chu. reflected in the way he is regarded by those who inhabit postapocalyptic Earth. The superadvanced robots venerate David as a living personification of all that is (or was) truly human. “You are so important to us David, you are unique in all ... While most of the clones unthinkingly accept their fate, one clone named Sonmi~451 (a name resonant of Ray Bradbury's 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451) rebels against the ..." |
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