Beyond “The Last Doubler”: Reproductive Futurism and the Politics of Care in Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu

Marina  Klimenko

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Vol. 45 No. 2 (2021): Special Issue: Neoliberal Environments

Beyond “The Last Doubler”: Reproductive Futurism and the Politics of Care in Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu

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Submitted: July 14, 2021
Published: 2021-07-14

References

Bell, David. “Queernaturecultures.” Mortimer-Sandilands and Erickson, pp. 134-48.
Calvo-Pascual, Mónica. “‘The New Children of the Earth’: Posthuman Dystopia or a Lesbian’s Dream in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.” Orbis Litterarum, vol. 73, 2018, pp. 405-17.
Cuder-Domínguez, Pilar. “The Politics of Gender and Genre in Asian Canadian Women’s Speculative Fiction: Hiromi Goto and Larissa Lai.” Ty and Verduyn, pp. 115-31.
Edelman, Lee. No Future. Duke UP, 2004.
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America. Harvard UP, 2010.
Goellnicht, Donald, and Eleanor Ty. “Asian Canadian (Part II: Geographies, Literary Ethnoscapes, and Historical Periods).” Lee, pp. 224-43.
Haraway, Donna. “Symbiogenesis, Sympoiesis, and Art Science Activisms for Staying with the Trouble.” Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, edited by Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt, U of Minnesota P, 2017, pp. 25-50. ProQuest, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/lib/utoronto/detail.action?docID=4745557.
Joo, Hee-Jung Serenity. “Reproduction, Reincarnation, and Human Cloning: Literary and Racial Forms in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.” Critique, vol. 55, 2014, pp. 46-59.
Kim, Christine. “Troubling the Mosaic: Larissa Lai’s When Fox Is a Thousand, Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night, and Representations of Social Differences.” Ty and Verduyn, pp. 153-77.
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How to Cite

Klimenko, M. . (2021). Beyond “The Last Doubler”: Reproductive Futurism and the Politics of Care in Larissa Lai’s The Tiger Flu. Studies in Canadian Literature, 45(2), 161–180. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/32504

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[1] Bell, David. “Queernaturecultures.” Mortimer-Sandilands and Erickson, pp. 134-48.

[2] Calvo-Pascual, Mónica. “‘The New Children of the Earth’: Posthuman Dystopia or a Lesbian’s Dream in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.” Orbis Litterarum, vol. 73, 2018, pp. 405-17.

[3] Cuder-Domínguez, Pilar. “The Politics of Gender and Genre in Asian Canadian Women’s Speculative Fiction: Hiromi Goto and Larissa Lai.” Ty and Verduyn, pp. 115-31.

[4] Edelman, Lee. No Future. Duke UP, 2004.

[5] Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America. Harvard UP, 2010.

[6] Goellnicht, Donald, and Eleanor Ty. “Asian Canadian (Part II: Geographies, Literary Ethnoscapes, and Historical Periods).” Lee, pp. 224-43.

[7] Haraway, Donna. “Symbiogenesis, Sympoiesis, and Art Science Activisms for Staying with the Trouble.” Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, edited by Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt, U of Minnesota P, 2017, pp. 25-50. ProQuest, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/lib/utoronto/detail.action?docID=4745557.

[8] Joo, Hee-Jung Serenity. “Reproduction, Reincarnation, and Human Cloning: Literary and Racial Forms in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.” Critique, vol. 55, 2014, pp. 46-59.

[9] Kim, Christine. “Troubling the Mosaic: Larissa Lai’s When Fox Is a Thousand, Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night, and Representations of Social Differences.” Ty and Verduyn, pp. 153-77.

[10] Lai, Larissa. “Familiarizing Grist Village: Why I Write Speculative Fiction.” Canadian Literature, no. 240, 2020, pp. 20-39. ProQuest, www.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fdocview%2F2435551026%3 Faccountid%3D14771.

[11] Lai, Larissa. Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2014.

[12] Lai, Larissa. The Tiger Flu. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018.

[13] Latimer, Heather. Reproductive Acts: Sexual Politics in North American Fiction and Film. McGill-Queen’s UP, 2013.

[14] Lee, Rachel C., editor. The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature. Taylor and Francis Group, 2016. ProQuest, www.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fdocview%2F2137953211% 3Faccountid%3D14771.

[15] Ling, Jinqi. “Speculative Fiction (Part III: Genre, Form, and the Paraliterary).” Lee, pp. 497-508.

[16] Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona, and Bruce Erickson. “Introduction.” Mortimer-Sandilands and Erickson, pp. 1-47.

[17] Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona, and Bruce Erickson, editors. Queer Ecologies. Indiana UP, 2010.

[18] Parrenas, Rhacel. “The Mobility Pathways of Migrant Domestic Workers.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 47, no. 1, 2020, pp. 3-24.

[19] Patrick, Dan. Interview by Tucker Carlson. Tucker Carlson Tonight, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2020. YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?=ZFqeJkDs_cY.

[20] Patterson, Christopher B., and Y-Dang Troeung. “The Psyche of Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Queering Memory and Reproduction in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl and Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 42, no. 1, 2016, pp. 73-98.

[21] Puig de la Bellacasa, Maria. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds. U of Minnesota P, 2017.

[22] Samatar, Sofia. “Toward a Planetary History of Afrofuturism.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 48, no. 4, Winter 2017, pp. 175-91.

[23] Sandilands, Catriona, and Astrida Neimanis. “A Very Queer Nature: On Queer Ecologies, Gardens, and Flourishing Multispecies Practices.” Sydney Environment Institute, U of Sydney, 2018, sei.sydney.edu.au/opinion/queer-nature-queer-ecologies-gardensflourishing-multispecies-practices/.

[24] Shotwell, Alexis. Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times. U of Minnesota P, 2016.

[25] Sturgeon, Noël. “Penguin Family Values: The Nature of Planetary Environmental Reproductive Justice.” Mortimer-Sandilands and Erickson, pp. 102-33.

[26] Sussman, Anna Louie. “I Did My Own Abortion Because Texas Used COVID-19 as an Excuse to Shut Down Abortion Clinics.” Cosmopolitan, 10 Aug. 2020, www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a33393312/abortion-covid-19-pandemic/.

[27] Ty, Eleanor, and Christl Verduyn, editors. Asian Canadian Writing beyond Autoethnography. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2008.

[28] Unger, Nancy C. “From Jook Joints to Sisterspace: The Role of Nature in Lesbian Alternative Environments in the United States.” Mortimer-Sandilands and Erickson, pp. 173-98.

[29] United Nations Human Development Report Office and the Gender Team (Rivera et al.). “Gender Inequality and the COVID-19 Crisis: A Human Development Perspective.” United Nations Human Development Working Paper, 2020, http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/gendercovid_final.xlsx.