Descent of the Human: Racialized Animality, Queer Intimacy, and Evolutionary Theory in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl

Cassandra Y.  Olsen

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Vol. 46 No. 1 (2021): Special Issue: Queer Bodies/Corps Queers

Descent of the Human: Racialized Animality, Queer Intimacy, and Evolutionary Theory in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl

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Submitted: January 30, 2022
Published: 2022-01-31

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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, vol. 42, no. 1, 2016, pp. 73-98.
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Wong, Rita. “Troubling Domestic Limits: Reading Border Fictions alongside Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.” BC Studies, no. 140, 2003-04, pp. 109-24.

How to Cite

Olsen, C. Y. . (2022). Descent of the Human: Racialized Animality, Queer Intimacy, and Evolutionary Theory in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl. Studies in Canadian Literature, 46(1), 145–165. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/32739

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[1] Alaimo, Stacy. Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self. Indiana UP, 2010.

[2] Bahng, Aimee. “Specters of the Pacific: Salt Fish Drag and Atomic Hauntologies in the Era of Genetic Modification.” Journal of American Studies, vol. 49, no. 4, 2015, pp. 663-83.

[3] Braidotti, Rosi. The Posthuman. Polity, 2013.

[4] Chen, Mel Y. Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. Duke UP, 2012.

[5] Cheng, Anne Anlin. The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief. Oxford UP, 2001.

[6] Compton, Wade. After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010.

[7] Eng, David L., and Shinhee Han. Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans. Duke UP, 2018.

[8] Goellnicht, Donald. “Blurring Boundaries: Asian American Literature as Theory.” An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature, edited by King-Kok Cheung, Cambridge UP, 1997, pp. 338-65.

[9] Grosz, Elizabeth. Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power. Duke UP, 2005.

[10] Huang, Michelle N. “Creative Evolution: Narrative Symbiogenesis in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.” Amerasia Journal, vol. 42, no. 2, 2016, pp. 118-38.

[11] Joo, Hee-Jung Serenity. “Reproduction, Reincarnation, and Human Cloning: Literary and Racial Forms in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 55, no. 1, 2014, pp. 46-59.

[12] Lai, Larissa. “Future Asians: Migrant Speculations, Repressed History and Cyborg Hope.” West Coast Line, vol. 38, no. 2, 2004, pp. 168-75.

[13] Lai, Larissa. Salt Fish Girl. Thomas Allen, 2002.

[14] Lai, Paul. “Stinky Bodies: Mythological Futures and the Olfactory Sense in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.” MELUS, vol. 33, no. 4, 2008, pp. 167-86.

[15] Lee, Tara. “Mutant Bodies in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl: Challenging the Alliance between Science and Capital.” West Coast Line, vol. 38, no. 2, 2004, pp. 94-109.

[16] Lipowski, Z.J. “Somatization: The Concept and Its Clinical Application.” American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 145, no. 11, 1988, pp. 1358-68, doi:10.1176/ajp.145.11.1358.

[17] Mansbridge, Joanna. “Abject Origins: Uncanny Strangers and Figures of Fetishism in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.” West Coast Line, vol. 38, no. 2, 2004, pp. 121-33.

[18] Morris, Robyn. “‘What Does It Mean to Be Human?’ Racing Monsters, Clones, and Replicants.” Foundations, vol. 90, 2004, pp. 81-96.

[19] Nyong’o, Tavia. The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory. U of Minnesota P, 2009.

[20] Oliver, Stephanie. “Diffuse Connections: Smell and Diasporic Subjectivity in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.” Canadian Literature, no. 208, 2011, pp. 85-107.

[21] 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, vol. 42, no. 1, 2016, pp. 73-98.

[22] Phung, Malissa. “The Diasporic Inheritance of Postmemory and Immigrant Shame in the Novels of Larissa Lai.” Postcolonial Text, vol. 7, no. 3, 2012, pp. 1-19.

[23] Reimer, Sharlee. “Troubling Origins: Cyborg Politics in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.” Atlantis, vol. 3, no. 1, 2010, pp. 4-14.

[24] Seshadri-Crooks, Kalpana. Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian Analysis of Race. Routledge, 2000.

[25] Wong, Rita. “Troubling Domestic Limits: Reading Border Fictions alongside Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl.” BC Studies, no. 140, 2003-04, pp. 109-24.