Abstract
The article probes into the interrelationships among cyborg technology, sexual violence, and toxic colonialism represented in the Chinese SF novel Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan. It applies methodologies in posthumanism and ecofeminism and situates the text in the Chinese as well as a global context. It intends to provide a non-Western perspective to understand cyborg feminism by associating the Chinese historical reality with trans-species thinking. It argues that the SF author Chen Qiufan is critical about the anthropogenic body modifications which may challenge the process of female resistance and resilience in the face of gender and colonial oppression. By doing this, he criticizes the institutional oppression of the disadvantaged species as a cultural and historical product.
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YUAN, YUAN.
"Cyborg Feminism and Toxic Colonialism in Chen Qiufan’s Waste Tide."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
26.4
(2024):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.4188>
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