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Chapters (25)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Valley, Uncanny
  4. The Hospitality of Strangers
  5. One Hundred Days in the Cave
  6. The Other Asterion, or, The Minotaur’s Sacrifice (A Story)
  7. Exactly Like You
  8. Harness
  9. Orphan: The Plural Form
  10. The Error of Blood Relation
  11. I Will Make an Example
  12. The Limit Case
  13. In the Other Future
  14. Like a Second Person inside Us
  15. Autoclonography
  16. Unalloyed
  17. Paradise
  18. Replication
  19. My Singularity
  20. Notes
  21. References
  22. Illustration Credits
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. Funder Acknowledgments
  25. 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