Technology, the Body, and the Internet between the West and East Asia: The Discourse on Race in Science Fiction

Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,5, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: The aim of this paper is to explore the intersection of the human body with technology and to demonstrate that cyborgs in fiction are often represented as the ethnic others and act as metaphors for experiences of ethnicity for whom social...