The Membranes by Heinrich, Ari Larissa
The Membranes by Heinrich, Ari Larissa

The Membranes

It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all...
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The Membranes by Heinrich, Ari Larissa

The Membranes

$43.56
The Membranes by Heinrich, Ari Larissa

The Membranes

$43.56
Author: Ari Larissa Heinrich
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on exploited cyborg labor. Momo prefers to keep to herself, and anyway she's too busy for other relationships: her clients include some of the city's best-known media personalities. But after meeting her estranged mother, she begins to explore her true identity, a journey that leads to questioning the bounds of gender, memory, self, and reality.

First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes--heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies--into a sensitive portrait of one young woman's quest for self-understanding. Predicting everything from fitness tracking to social media saturation, this visionary and sublime novel stands out for its queer and trans themes. The Membranes reveals the diversity and originality of contemporary speculative fiction in Chinese, exploring gender and sexuality, technological domination, and regimes of capital, all while applying an unflinching self-reflexivity to the reader's own role. Ari Larissa Heinrich's translation brings Chi's hybrid punk sensibility to all readers interested in books that test the limits of where speculative fiction can go.

Author: Ari Larissa Heinrich,Ta-Wei Chi
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 06/01/2021
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780231195713


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/15/2021
Booklist 06/01/2021 pg. 52

About the Author

Chi Ta-wei is a renowned writer and scholar from Taiwan. Chi's scholarly work focuses on LGBT studies, disability studies, and Sinophone literary history, while his award-winning creative writing ranges from science fiction to queer short stories. He is an associate professor of Taiwanese literature at the National Chengchi University.

Ari Larissa Heinrich is a professor of Chinese literature and media at the Australian National University. They are the author of Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body (2018) and other books, and the translator of Qiu Miaojin's novel Last Words from Montmartre (2014).
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