出版日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

著者：Robin Chen-Hsing Tsai

單位：英文學系暨研究所

出版者：华中师范大学

著錄名稱、卷期、頁數：Foreign Literature Studies=外國文學研究 36(6), pp.18-30

摘要：For critic Roger Luckhurst, African-American writer Octavia Bulter's trilogy of Xenogenesis (Dawn, Adulthood Rites and Imago) is about "the horror of miscegenation." In Dawn, an African woman named Lilith Iyapo is awoken to the task of converting other humans to trade with the Oankali in this post-apocalyptic otherworld. In Adulthood Rites, the protagonist Akin is a genetically engineered offspring of five parents (two humans, two Oankali, and one Ooloi); and in Imago, Jodahs is an Ooloi who controls the evolution of racial science. Through the destablization of binary thinking between the human and the alien, Butler's Xenogenesis has demonstrated a Harawayan cyborg writing about the importance of hybridized identities that renders survival possible. In this essay, I argue against a moral reading of the technological advances as adumbrated in the trilogy. For my part, the trilogy aims at moving beyond Michel Foucault's technology of the self and Giorgio Agamben's biopolitics in the hope that the ethico-political dilemma can be resolved.

關鍵字：Octavia Butler; Xenogenesis; ethical choice; biopolitics

語言：zh

ISSN：1003-7519

期刊性質：國外

收錄於：A&HCI

通訊作者：Robin Chen-hsing Tsai

審稿制度：是

國別：CHN

公開徵稿：Y

出版型式：紙本