Race in American science fiction /

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Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III argues that racial alterity is fundamental to the genre's narrative strategy. Race in American Science Fiction offers a systematic classification of ways that race appears...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lavender, Isiah, III
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Science fiction, American > History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Race dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy
Race in literature
Science fiction, American
English.
Languages & Literatures.
American Literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: mapping the Blackground
  • Racing science fiction
  • Meta-slavery
  • Jim Crow extrapolations
  • Ailments of race
  • Ethnoscapes
  • Technologically derived ethnicities
  • Epilogue: science fictioning race.

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