Abstract
ABSTRACT In this article, I explore how two collections of Asian American speculative poetry – Franny Choi’s Soft Science and Margaret Rhee’s Love, Robot—prioritize sensation to challenge the cultural construction of the Asian female robot. As liberal humanism’s promise of rights through visual representation and narration fail to manifest, speculative poetry offers an alternative sensory apparatus that recognizes minoritized subjectivity. Playing with poetic opacity, inscrutability, and ambiguity, Choi and Rhee highlight the sensory power of sexuality to defy categorical definition. Their experiments in robot sensation offer new models for being-with attentive to the politics of racialized, gendered, and human embodiment.
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