1. Demon Courage and Dread Engines: America’s Reaction to the Russo-Japanese War and the Genesis of the Japanese Invasion Sublime

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Technologizing Orientalism: An Introduction 1
5. Part I. Iterations and Instantiations
6. 1. Demon Courage and Dread Engines: America’s Reaction to the Russo-Japanese War and the Genesis of the Japanese Invasion Sublime 23
7. 2. “Out of the Glamorous, Mystic East”: Techno-Orientalism in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Radio Broadcasting 40
8. 3. Looking Backward, from 2019 to 1882: Reading the Dystopias of Future Multiculturalism in the Utopias of Asian Exclusion 52
9. 4. Queer Excavations: Technology, Temporality, Race 64
10. 5. I, Stereotype: Detained in the Uncanny Valley 76
11. 6. The Mask of Fu Manchu, Son of Sinbad, and Star Wars IV: A New Hope: Techno-Orientalist Cinema as a Mnemotechnics of Twentieth-Century U.S.-Asian Conflicts 89
12. 7. Racial Speculations: (Bio)technology, Battlestar Galactica, and a Mixed-Race Imagining 101
13. 8. Never Stop Playing: StarCraft and Asian Gamer Death 113
14. 9. “Home Is Where the War Is”: Remaking Techno-Orientalist Militarism on the Homefront 125
15. Part II. Reappropriations and Recuperations
16. 10. Thinking about Bodies, Souls, and Race in Gibson’s Bridge Trilogy 139
17. 11. Reimagining Asian Women in Feminist Post-Cyberpunk Science Fiction 151
18. 12. The Cruel Optimism of Asian Futurity and the Reparative Practices of Sonny Liew’s Malinky Robot 163
19. 13. Palimpsestic Orientalisms and Antiblackness: or, Joss Whedon’s Grand Vision of an Asian/American Tomorrow 180
20. 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 193
21. 15. A Poor Man from a Poor Country: Nam June Paik, TV-Buddha, and the Techno-Orientalist Lens 209
22. Desiring Machines, Repellant Subjects: A Conclusion 221
23. Bibliography 227
24. Contributors 245
25. Index 251