@article{ART003348869},
author={권혜진},
title={Those Who Wait for the Future: Asynchronous Temporality in the SF of Xia Jia and Kim Choyeop},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2026},
volume={78},
pages={1-24},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2026.78..1}
TY - JOUR
AU - 권혜진
TI - Those Who Wait for the Future: Asynchronous Temporality in the SF of Xia Jia and Kim Choyeop
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2026
VL - 78
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 1
EP - 24
SN - 1598-0685
AB - This paper examines how waiting reveals the unequal distribution of futures in trans-East Asian women's SF, focusing on Xia Jia's "The Time You Cannot Reach" and Kim Choyeop's "If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light." It redefines waiting not as emotional passivity or narrative delay, but as a form of asynchronous temporality in which beings with different mobilities and paces cannot arrive at the same future together. In Xia's story, waiting appears through relational asymmetry between beings inhabiting divergent temporal rhythms. In Kim's story, it emerges through cosmic distance, broken transport infrastructure, and unequal access to futurity. Drawing on Hage, Bloch, Suvin, and feminist SF criticism, this paper argues that these works do not imagine the future as technological progress, but as a set of delayed, inaccessible, and unevenly distributed temporal possibilities.
KW - trans-East Asian women’s SF;politics of waiting;asynchronous temporality;uneven futurity;relational temporality;Xia Jia;Kim Choyeop
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2026.78..1
ER -
권혜진. (2026). Those Who Wait for the Future: Asynchronous Temporality in the SF of Xia Jia and Kim Choyeop. Cross-Cultural Studies, 78, 1-24.
권혜진. 2026, "Those Who Wait for the Future: Asynchronous Temporality in the SF of Xia Jia and Kim Choyeop", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.78, pp.1-24. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2026.78..1
권혜진 "Those Who Wait for the Future: Asynchronous Temporality in the SF of Xia Jia and Kim Choyeop" Cross-Cultural Studies 78 pp.1-24 (2026) : 1.
권혜진. Those Who Wait for the Future: Asynchronous Temporality in the SF of Xia Jia and Kim Choyeop. 2026; 78 1-24. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2026.78..1
권혜진. "Those Who Wait for the Future: Asynchronous Temporality in the SF of Xia Jia and Kim Choyeop" Cross-Cultural Studies 78(2026) : 1-24.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2026.78..1
권혜진. Those Who Wait for the Future: Asynchronous Temporality in the SF of Xia Jia and Kim Choyeop. Cross-Cultural Studies, 78, 1-24. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2026.78..1
권혜진. Those Who Wait for the Future: Asynchronous Temporality in the SF of Xia Jia and Kim Choyeop. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2026; 78 1-24. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2026.78..1
권혜진. Those Who Wait for the Future: Asynchronous Temporality in the SF of Xia Jia and Kim Choyeop. 2026; 78 1-24. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2026.78..1
권혜진. "Those Who Wait for the Future: Asynchronous Temporality in the SF of Xia Jia and Kim Choyeop" Cross-Cultural Studies 78(2026) : 1-24.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2026.78..1
