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kobvindex_ZLB35222805
ISBN:
9780231551441
Serie:
Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
Inhalt:
" It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on exploited cyborg labor. Momo prefers to keep to herself, and anyway she's too busy for other relationships: her clients include some of the city's best-known media personalities. But after meeting her estranged mother, she begins to explore her true identity, a journey that leads to questioning the bounds of gender, memory, self, and reality. First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes8212 heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies8212 into a sensitive portrait of one young woman's quest for self-understanding. Predicting everything from fitness tracking to social media saturation, this visionary and sublime novel stands out for its queer and trans themes. The Membranes reveals the diversity and originality of contemporary speculative fiction in Chinese, exploring gender and sexuality, technological domination, and regimes of capital, all while applying an unflinching self-reflexivity to the reader's own role. Ari Larissa Heinrich's translation brings Chi's hybrid punk sensibility to all readers interested in books that test the limits of where speculative fiction can go. "
Inhalt:
Rezension(1): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: June 1, 2021 A celebrated queer writer and critic in Taiwan, Chi makes his English-language literary debut with this translation of his mind-bending 1995 sf novella. Set in a futuristic Taipei, the story revolves around Momo, T City's premier aesthetician, and her relationship with her mother, a high-powered executive she hasn't spoken to in 20 years. Though much space is devoted to describing a future world where humans live in domes under the sea while Earth's surface is inhabited by cyborgs who labor for the world's mega-corporations, Momo's life is only faintly sketched as a quiet, solitary existence in her salon, where between clients she reminisces about her past and wonders if she will ever earn her mother's regard. A twist ending satisfyingly reveals the reasons for this authorial choice and poignantly concludes the book's exploration of the ways our lived realities are shaped by ourselves and others, especially in the context of a parent-child relationship. The Membranes is a welcome addition to the small but growing ranks of international science fiction available in English translation, and is an excellent early example of climate fiction. COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "
Sprache:
Englisch
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