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dc.contributor.authorEsaki, Brett J.
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-12T18:39:00Z
dc.date.available2020-05-12T18:39:00Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-22
dc.identifier.citationEsaki, B.J. Ted Chiang’s Asian American Amusement at Alien Arrival. Religions 2020, 11, 56.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2077-1444
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/rel11020056
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/641210
dc.description.abstractIn the 2016 movie Arrival, aliens with advanced technology appear on Earth in spaceships reminiscent of the black obelisk in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film presents this arrival as a serious problem to be solved, with the future of human life and interplanetary relationships in the balance. The short story, "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang, on which the film was based, takes a different, amusing route that essentially depicts an ideal vision of the era of colonialism. To articulate this reading, this article will compare Chiang's science fiction (SF) to the genre in general and will take Isiah Lavender III's positionality of otherhood to reveal how Chiang's work expresses a Chinese American secular faith in a moral universe. It will analyze the narrative form in Chiang's collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, and will use it to compare the prose and film versions of "Story of Your Life." It will also explain how Chiang may be using a nonlinear orthography and variational principles of physics to frame multileveled humor. It utilizes theories of humor by John Morreall and analyses of Chinese American secularity by Russell Jeung and concludes that Chiang's work reflects concerns and trends of Asian Americans' secularized religions.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.rightsCopyright © 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.subjectTed Chiangen_US
dc.subjectAsian Americanen_US
dc.subjectsecularitiesen_US
dc.subjectotherhooden_US
dc.subjectcolonialismen_US
dc.subjecthumoren_US
dc.titleTed Chiang’s Asian American Amusement at Alien Arrivalen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.departmentUniv Arizona, Dept Religious Studies & Classen_US
dc.identifier.journalRELIGIONSen_US
dc.description.noteOpen access journalen_US
dc.description.collectioninformationThis item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.en_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.identifier.piirel11020056
dc.source.journaltitleReligions
dc.source.volume11
dc.source.issue2
dc.source.beginpage56
refterms.dateFOA2020-05-12T18:39:02Z


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Copyright © 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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