Antiracist Praxis in East and Southeast Asian Diasporic Speculative Fiction

东亚和东南亚散居思辨小说中的反种族主义实践

• 批准号: 2708053
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Birkbeck, University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2708053
• 关键词: Antiracist; Praxis; East; Southeast; Asian

Anchored in the critical concept of transnational ethnofuturisms and informed by postcolonial and intersectional perspectives, this thesis argues that contemporary diasporic East and Southeast Asian speculative fiction (ESEA SF) acts as praxis for dismantling systems of racial oppression and envisioning socially just futures. This will be examined via the works of four writers published in the 2010s-namely, R.F. Kuang's The Poppy War trilogy, Neon Yang's Tensorate duology, Victor Fernando R. Ocampo's The Infinite Library and Other Stories, and Aliette de Bodard's Xuya Universe novelettes. Using mixed methods research, the project will explore how these authors use genre devices to refract oppressivestructures and reimagine socio-political change, and their significance in reshaping Anglophone SF into a plural and postcolonial literary community. I will produce a final thesis, a podcast in conversation with peer researchers, and an open-access archive documenting ESEA SF works.

本文立足于跨国民族未来主义这一批判性概念，以后殖民主义和交叉性视角为指导，认为当代散居东亚和东南亚思辨小说(ESEA SF)是破解种族压迫制度、展望社会公正未来的实践。这一点将通过2010年代出版的四位作家的作品进行考察--分别是匡正荣的《罂粟战争三部曲》、霓虹灯的《张扬二元论》、维克多·费尔南多·R·奥坎波的《无限图书馆和其他故事》以及阿莉特·德·博达尔的中篇小说《旭亚宇宙》。该项目将使用混合研究方法，探索这些作家如何使用体裁手段来折射压迫结构和重新想象社会政治变化，以及他们在将讲英语的科幻小说重塑为多元化和后殖民文学社区方面的意义。我将制作一篇期末论文，一个与同行研究人员对话的播客，以及一个记录ESEA SF工作的开放获取档案。