The Mulatto Cyborg: Imagining a Multiracial Future |
The Mulatto Cyborg: Imagining a Multiracial Future
Cinema Journal
Volume 44, Number 2 (Winter, 2005)
pages 34-49
Leilani Nishime, Assistant Professor of Communications
University of Washington
Applying the literature of passing to cyborg cinema makes visible the politics of cyborg representations and illuminates contemporary conceptions of mixed-race subjectivity and interpolations of mixed-race bodies. The passing narrative also reveals the constitutive role of melancholy and nostalgia both in creating cyborg cinema and in undermining its subversive potential.
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