چکیده مقاله
This article argues that Richard K Morgan’s Altered Carbon 2002 exemplifies a form of Posthuman Orientalism, in which futuristic technoculture continues the racial and colonial logics of traditional Orientalism By reading the novel through Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism and posthuman theory of N Katherine Hayles and Donna Haraway, this article aims to show how Altered Carbon infuses its depiction of cybernetic bodies and mind‐transfer technology with Western fantasies about “the East” The novel’s cityscapes, biotechnologies, and characters repeatedly invoke Asian motifs from references to New Beijing to the “oriental” martial arts of the Envoy Corps as exotic technical resources For example, Morgan writes that Envoy training incorporates “psychospiritual techniques that oriental cultures on Earth had known about for millennia” Morgan 221 , directly appropriating Eastern traditions as futuristic weaponry This article contends that, despite its celebration of posthuman transformation, Altered Carbon reinscribes colonial difference: Asian bodies are depicted as technological spectacles and Western rationality remains central in Roh, Huang, and Niu’s terms This analysis draws on primary sources and critical theory – from Hayles’s and Haraway’s accounts of embodiment to Said’s and Ziauddin Sardar’s critiques of cultural imperialism – to argue that Morgan’s science fiction noir, like many techno‐Orientalist narratives, entwines high tech fantasies with enduring Western‐centered, racialized gazes
کلیدواژهها
نویسندگان
Maryam Okhovat
MA Student of English Literature in Tehran University
شیوه ارجاع
Okhovat, Maryam,1404,Posthuman Orientalism in Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon,23th International Conference on Language , Literature , Culture and History Studies,Tehran
ارائهشده در
مجموعه مقالات بیست و سومین کنفرانس بین المللی زبان، ادبیات، فرهنگ و تاریخ30 آبان 1404 · تهران