Abstract
Why did the coolie's body speak so forcefully to nineteenth-century America of its future? And how did that body's loquacious, obscene ventriloquism shape the imaginary scaffolding of America's utopias, its science fictions? This essay answers those questions by reading Arthur Vinton's Looking Further Backward (1890), one of the first American novels to imagine a Chinese military invasion of the United States.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 99-129 |
| Number of pages | 31 |
| Journal | Representations |
| Volume | 99 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 1 2007 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Gender Studies
- Cultural Studies
- General Arts and Humanities
- Sociology and Political Science