Hybrid Spaces Future Origins Salt Fish Girl By

Hybrid Spaces & Future “Origins” Salt Fish Girl By Larissa Lai

Plot Summary: Chaps 8 -10 Future The New Kubla Khan: M meeting Withers, selling the song being captured (memory cell) Water on Rock 1. The Wind-Up Toy escape stealing toys being in prison and release to the Sonias 2. Darling Tom –M’s Advertising project 3. The Sonias’ Soles –Sonias killed 4. Zero Point Three Percent Origins and Birth Past A Seed 1. Sinking 2. The Durian

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

Hybridity and Language Cannot speak her mother tongue remember mad people’s telling stories like her p. 170 -71 Confusion of identity – Regarded as the husband of her mother; becomes the daughter of her brother

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

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 boy’s piano (child prodigy) An Evie-like crane woman Miranda

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

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 in her mother’s clothes Miranda’s 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

The Trip to Birthing ßResistance having failed, the two leave the rest of the underground group to go back and against Evie’s “origins” ßFlower’s 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 ßThe 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)