Publication : Elsewhere like here: heterotopias in Han Song’s science fiction

Le 30 juin 2023 est paru, en ligne et en avant-première, l’article de Loïc Aloisio intitulé « Elsewhere like here: heterotopias in Han Song’s science fiction ». Celui-ci sera prochainement publié en version papier et en ligne dans le numéro spécial de la revue Cultural Geographies (ISSN 1474-4740) intitulé « Earth and its Others: Geographies of SF », et dirigé par Lorenzo Andolfatto et Christine Bichsel. Vous trouverez la version en ligne de l’article ICI (accès restreint), et le résumé en anglais ci-dessous :

This article focuses on the Chinese science fiction writer Han Song who often uses heterotopias in his work. I will use this concept to illustrate how Han Song uses these “other places” for the emplotment of his stories to better reflect on the society and epoch described in his works. Indeed, Han Song often chooses the symbols of modernity put forward by the Chinese government as heterotopias and then distorts them to show the dark side of the government’s ideals, hence countering the official discourse. To do so Han Song has a particular way of emploting these heterotopias: he starts his stories right in the middle of reality before leading the reader towards a succession of exponential distortions of reality, while punctuating his text with references to Chinese history and current events, Han Song’s heterotopias hence encompassing many aspects of Chinese past and present society.