@article{ART003216546},
author={Kwon, Hyejin},
title={Beyond Boundaries, Beyond the Self: Narrative Practice of the Non-Subject in Xia Jia’s Science Fiction},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2025},
volume={75},
pages={95-122},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2025.75..95}
TY - JOUR
AU - Kwon, Hyejin
TI - Beyond Boundaries, Beyond the Self: Narrative Practice of the Non-Subject in Xia Jia’s Science Fiction
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2025
VL - 75
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 95
EP - 122
SN - 1598-0685
AB - This paper examined how contemporary Chinese SF challenged traditional subjectivity through marginalized entities in Xia Jia's Psychological Game, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, and The Dream of the Dragon-Horse. These works revealed alternative expressions of being in posthuman environments, moving beyond linguistic articulation to affective communication. Psychological Game exposes emotion's commodification through algorithmic manipulation of therapeutic confession, blurring boundaries between human empathy and AI simulation. Winter's Night constructs an ethics of silence through an anonymous poet's legacy, resisting affective capitalism's spectacle-driven logic. Dragon-Horse redefines subjectivity through a machine's sensory, non-verbal experiences in a posthuman world. Drawing on Butler, Massumi and Foucault, this study positions these narratives as ethical experiments that critique techno-social affect while reimagining literary space for posthuman identities.
KW - non-subject;ethics of responsiveness;Silence;self-narration;post-anthropocentric narrative;Chinese science fiction
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2025.75..95
ER -
Kwon, Hyejin. (2025). Beyond Boundaries, Beyond the Self: Narrative Practice of the Non-Subject in Xia Jia’s Science Fiction. Cross-Cultural Studies, 75, 95-122.
Kwon, Hyejin. 2025, "Beyond Boundaries, Beyond the Self: Narrative Practice of the Non-Subject in Xia Jia’s Science Fiction", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.75, pp.95-122. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2025.75..95
Kwon, Hyejin "Beyond Boundaries, Beyond the Self: Narrative Practice of the Non-Subject in Xia Jia’s Science Fiction" Cross-Cultural Studies 75 pp.95-122 (2025) : 95.
Kwon, Hyejin. Beyond Boundaries, Beyond the Self: Narrative Practice of the Non-Subject in Xia Jia’s Science Fiction. 2025; 75 95-122. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2025.75..95
Kwon, Hyejin. "Beyond Boundaries, Beyond the Self: Narrative Practice of the Non-Subject in Xia Jia’s Science Fiction" Cross-Cultural Studies 75(2025) : 95-122.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2025.75..95
Kwon, Hyejin. Beyond Boundaries, Beyond the Self: Narrative Practice of the Non-Subject in Xia Jia’s Science Fiction. Cross-Cultural Studies, 75, 95-122. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2025.75..95
Kwon, Hyejin. Beyond Boundaries, Beyond the Self: Narrative Practice of the Non-Subject in Xia Jia’s Science Fiction. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2025; 75 95-122. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2025.75..95
Kwon, Hyejin. Beyond Boundaries, Beyond the Self: Narrative Practice of the Non-Subject in Xia Jia’s Science Fiction. 2025; 75 95-122. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2025.75..95
Kwon, Hyejin. "Beyond Boundaries, Beyond the Self: Narrative Practice of the Non-Subject in Xia Jia’s Science Fiction" Cross-Cultural Studies 75(2025) : 95-122.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2025.75..95
