UID:
almahu_9949297076402882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780231551441
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9783110739077
Series Statement:
Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
Content:
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 tropes-heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies-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.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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The Membranes --
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Promiscuous Literacy: Taipei Punk and the Queer Future of The Membranes --
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Acknowledgments --
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MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE FROM TAIWAN
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110739077
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754001
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754124
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110753899
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/chi-19570
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231551441
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/chi-19570
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231551441
