Hybrid Spaces

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Hybrid Spaces Future Origins

• Salt Fish Girl
• By Larissa Lai

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Plot Summary Chaps 8-10

• Future

• Past

• A Seed
• Sinking
• The Durian

• The New Kubla Khan M meeting Withers, selling
  the song ? being captured (memory cell)
• Water on Rock
• The Wind-Up Toy ?escape? stealing toys ? being in
  prison and release?to the Sonias
• Darling Tom Ms Advertising project
• The Sonias Soles Sonias killed
• Zero Point Three Percent ? Origins and Birth

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Outline

• Hybridity and Language
• Two Hybrid Spaces of Science Fiction Commercial
  Spaces
• The Opium Den
• The New Kublan Khan
• The Trip to Birthing
• Tracing and Re-Defining the Origins

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Hybridity and Language

• Cannot speak her mother tongue ? remember mad
  peoples telling stories like her p. 170-71
• Confusion of identity
• Regarded as the husband of her mother
• becomes the daughter of her brother

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The Opium Den

• Mixture of smoke, liquor and perfume
• A rattan cage with a male dancer in in p. 144
• ? a small dark archway
• ? an opening covered by a black gauze

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The New Kublan Khan

• The walled city with gaps
• The NKK with bullet holes
• Performances
• A woman with fake organs pulled out
• A small Chinese boys piano (child prodigy)
• An Evie-like crane woman
• Miranda

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Commercial Space and the Shoes

• Miranda involved in selling illusion
• the mother used as a sign of eternal beauty
• Produces the mermaid ad 234-36 242
• the slogan to cure memory disease
• Shoes p. 202, 226

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the Origins Re-Invented for the Future

• Nu Wa drowning ? re-joining SFG ? another
  migration to become one of her selves ? sees her
  mother come (208)
• The meeting of the Past and the Future in Miranda
• Miranda in her mothers clothes
• Mirandas drawing the past re-constructed and
  transformed pp. 186-87
• Miranda pregnant with Durian seeds and
  love-making
• Miranda to Evie (your grandmother) p. 253

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The Trip to Birthing

• Resistance having failed, the two leave the rest
  of the underground group to go back and against
  Evies origins
• Flowers building (the Father)? the aquarian? the
  shacks with human clones ? the snail cabin with
  genes ? the frozen lake which turns to be a hot
  spring
• The birth of a black-hair girl who has as mothers
  Evie (whose source is Ai, a Chinese woman married
  to a Japanese man and 0.03 carpe gene) and
  Miranda (birth made possible by the Nu Wa seed in
  the durian)
• Everything will be alright, I thought, until
  next time.