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Alien Cities: Anxieties about Race, Space and Embodiment in Alex Proyas' Dark City and China Miéville's Perdido Street Station

Panel: 
From Ideal City to Cyberspace: Architecture and Urban Space in Utopian/Dystopian Literature and Film
Abstract: 

I examine the intersection of the (racialized) alien other and the city in Alex Proyas’ Dark City and China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station: cities that are monstrous or alien in their spatializing practices both affirm and undermine the analogy of the city as closed-off, inviolate body.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Julie Ha
Last Name: 
Tran
Institution: 
University of California, Davis