“I still want all the bits of you”: Margaret Rhee’s Robot Love Lyrics.

Too often, science fiction poems are ignored in contemporary retheorizations of lyric politics. This essay examines a fast-growing subgenre of sf lyric: the robot love poem, focusing on Margaret Rhee’s chapbook Radio Heart (2015) and the longer collection Love, Robot (2017). Can robots, whose imag...

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Publicado en:Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 198 - 219
Autor principal: Vanderborg, Susan
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts 2019
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Sumario:Too often, science fiction poems are ignored in contemporary retheorizations of lyric politics. This essay examines a fast-growing subgenre of sf lyric: the robot love poem, focusing on Margaret Rhee’s chapbook Radio Heart (2015) and the longer collection Love, Robot (2017). Can robots, whose images were used historically to dehumanize individuals and communities, be reimagined in political protests and more equalizing forms of communication between lovers?.