The third book to be published this year that was indexed by Southwest Humanities is Hyaesin Yoon’s Prosthetic Memories: Postcolonial Feminisms in a More-Than-Human World (Duke University Press, 2025), an important new work on the machine and animal-based extension of human memory, with a particular focus on body-technology interfaces in the United States and South Korea. “Among other sites and subjects, Yoon examines tongue surgery to correct English pronunciation in Korea, Asian American poetry that engages the human-machine divide, transnational dog cloning, and stem cell research, each of which activates potent postcolonial feminist mnemonics and alliances. In so doing, Yoon narrates the countermemories of racialized, gendered, diasporic, queer, and marginalized human and nonhuman others that work against the violent and isolating biopolitical and neoliberal forces in contemporary society.” This book is likely to be of interest to scholars and readers of feminist science and technology studies, postcolonial studies, and posthuman studies. Prosthetic Memories: Postcolonial Feminisms in a More-Than-Human World will be published on 4 February 2025. For more information, please see the publisher’s website here.
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