ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the posthuman trope of the android in two recent poetry collections, Sun Yung Shin’s Unbearable Splendor (2016) and Franny Choi’s Soft Science (2019). Claire Stanford argues that Shin and Choi’s posthuman poetics challenge both techno-Orientalism and anthropocentrism, positing an alliance between the poems’ posthuman figures and their Korean American human speakers that decenters the Western conception of the paradigmatic human as a white male and models a more empathetic interdependence between human, animal, and machine.
