Chapters (25)
- Cover
- Title Page
- Valley, Uncanny
- The Hospitality of Strangers
- One Hundred Days in the Cave
- The Other Asterion, or, The Minotaur’s Sacrifice (A Story)
- Exactly Like You
- Harness
- Orphan: The Plural Form
- The Error of Blood Relation
- I Will Make an Example
- The Limit Case
- In the Other Future
- Like a Second Person inside Us
- Autoclonography
- Unalloyed
- Paradise
- Replication
- My Singularity
- Notes
- References
- Illustration Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Funder Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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Kang, Hildi. Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910–194S. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005.
Kim, Eleana. “Our Adoptee, Our Alien: Transnational Adoptees as Specters of Family and Foreignness in Korea.” Anthropological Quarterly 80, no. 2 (2007): 497–531.
The Korea Society. “Exploring Korea’s Creation Myth.” A lesson plan. Accessed February 19, 2016. http://www.koreasociety.org/index2.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=144.
Kristeva, Julia. “By What Right Are You a Foreigner?” In Strangers to Ourselves, rev. ed. Part of the series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
Lee, Iksop, and S. Robert Ramsey. The Korean Language. New York: State University of New York Press, 2000.
McCoy, Terrence. “A Computer Just Passed the Turing Test in Landmark Trial.” Washington Post, June 9, 2014.
Memento. Directed by Christopher Nolan. New Market Films, 2001.
Park, Jane Chi Hyun. “On her book Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema.” Rorotoko, November 30, 2011.
--------. Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Pollak, Charles P., “Q&A Baby Dreams.” An interview by C. Claiborne Ray. New York Times website. Published November 22, 2005. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE0D81F3EF931A15752C1A9639C8B63.
Reed, Valerie. “Bringing Antigone Home?” Comparative Literature Studies 45, no. 3 (2008): 316–40.
Russian Folk Tales, translated by H. C. Stevens. London, Hamlyn, 1967.
Smith, Eleanor. “Palm Reading Is Real? How Your Hands Actually Predict Your Future.” The Atlantic, July/August 2015.
Sophocles. Antigone. Translated by Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin Books, 1984.
So-un, Kin. “The Disowned Student.” In The Story Bag: A Collection of Korean Folktales. Translated by Setsu Higashi. North Clarendon, VT: Turtle Publishing, 1989.
Illustration Credits
Illustration Credits
Pages 2 and 3. The uncanny valley charts are adapted from “The Uncanny Valley” by Masahiro Mori, translated by Karl F. MacDorman and Norri Kageki.
Pages 47 and 48. Scans of family registration documents are courtesy of the author.
Page 68. The postcard of Valeda, the transparent anatomical manikin, is from the Robert Crown Center for Health Education in Hinsdale, Illinois. Image courtesy of L. F. Appel and used with permission from the Robert Crown Center for Health Education.
Page 84. The palm chart is by Jean Belot, originally published in Les Oeuvres de Jean Belot (Rouen, France: J. Caillou, 1640). Public domain.
Page 88. The map of Dante’s Paradise and Inferno, titled “La Materia della Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri,” is by Michelangelo Cactani (1855) and was altered (frames added) by John Coulthart, www.johncoulthart.com. Image courtesy of John Coulthart.
Page 100. The Magician tarot card is from The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by A. E. Waite, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith (1911). Public domain.
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
Many thanks to the editors who published some of these works in the following anthologies or journals:
Cerise Press
Encyclopedia, Volume 3, L–Z
Penumbrae: An Occult Fiction Anthology
Revolver
Society Press
Tinderbox Poetry Journal