Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. On Speculation: Fiction, Finance, and Futurity  1
1. Imperial Rubber: The Speculative Arcs of Karen Tei Yamashita's Rainforest Futures  25
2. Homeland Futurity: Speculations at the Border  51
3. Speculation and the Speculum: Surrogations of Futurity  79
4. The Cruel Optimism of the Asian Century  119
5. Salt Fish Futures: The Irradiated Transpacific and the Financialization of the Human Genome Project  146
Epilogue. Speculation as Discourse, Speculation as Exuberance  168
Notes  171
Bibliography  201
Index  217

"Elegantly written and meticulously researched, Migrant Futures breaks new ground in taking a comparative ethnic approach to Asian American literature and culture through the genre of speculative fiction. Scholars interested in critical ethnic studies, Marxist approaches to literary studies and gender and queer theory will be educated and persuaded by Aimee Bahng's compelling theorization of how speculation and economic extraction have traditionally gone hand in hand." — Rachel C. Lee, author of, The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies

"Presenting readers with alternative visions of the future, Aimee Bahng's ambitious book turns attention to the dominant way in which we think of futurity: financial speculation. Against the ways the functioning of derivative markets depend upon a particular kind of storytelling about the future, which is often bet against, Bahng amasses an archive of fictional works that seeks to counter such storytelling by imagining and sharing a different version of the future. A stellar and important work." — Min Hyoung Song, author of, The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American

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