
Book Chat: Queering the Anthropocene in Taiwan Sci-Fi
New Books in East Asian Studies
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Ishiguro's Gender Fluidity
When I wrote the membranes, I was also inspired and motivated by the social movements in Taiwan then. So it's a different sort of inspiration sources, I guess, different contexts. When we watch fiction movies from Hollywood, or when we read the fiction novels all over the world, we often find the central figure of a girl who is always extremely sexy,. She is always waiting for guys, for heroes to save her. Or penetrative. Basically, we are watching the science fiction version of the Barbie doll. Not the challenge nowadays.
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