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Reproduction, Reincarnation, and Human Cloning: Literary and Racial Forms in Larissa Lai'sSalt Fish Girl

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Asian American and Pacific Histories Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

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Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl is structured on the contrasting themes of reincarnation and cloning as means of human reproduction. Lai's strategic use of distinct literary forms—mythology and science fiction—reveals the ways in which capitalism racially codes and recodes the body in its attendant stages of development. Specifically, the novel's attention to bodily transformations and duplications emphasizes the historical formation of Asian American subjectivity.

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