Science-fiction Studies, Volume 35, Issue 1SFS Publications, 2008 - Science fiction |
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While feminist sf literature has produced androgynous cyborgs of various racial hues ( see Haraway ) , I , Robot depicts a creature that resembles white Western masculinity . Each robot is given a pale white complexion and a “ generic ...
While feminist sf literature has produced androgynous cyborgs of various racial hues ( see Haraway ) , I , Robot depicts a creature that resembles white Western masculinity . Each robot is given a pale white complexion and a “ generic ...
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normalized as a terrorizing presence that must be rejected by the exceptional ” white robot . I , Robot relies on a strategic othering to explore a future beyond white death , but not necessarily beyond whiteness .
normalized as a terrorizing presence that must be rejected by the exceptional ” white robot . I , Robot relies on a strategic othering to explore a future beyond white death , but not necessarily beyond whiteness .
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The image of laboring robots and cyborgs , Chela Sandoval claims , “ could very well bring the politics of the alienated ... As alienated workers , the white robots of I , Robot are not only " programmed and rebuilt in the interests of ...
The image of laboring robots and cyborgs , Chela Sandoval claims , “ could very well bring the politics of the alienated ... As alienated workers , the white robots of I , Robot are not only " programmed and rebuilt in the interests of ...
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