Speculative Blackness : The Future of Race in Science Fiction /

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In Speculative Blackness, Andre M. Carrington analyzes the highly racialized genre of speculative fiction--including science fiction, fantasy, and utopian works, along with their fan cultures--to illustrate the relationship between genre conventions in media and the meanings ascribed to blackness in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carrington, Andre M., 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rasse > Motiv
Schwarze > Motiv
Science-Fiction
Science fiction, American.
Race in literature.
American fiction > African American authors.
African Americans in popular culture.
African Americans in mass media.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Black Studies (Global)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Noirs americains dans la culture populaire.
Noirs americains dans les medias.
Race dans la litterature.
Roman americain > Auteurs noirs americains > Histoire et critique.
Science fiction, American > History and criticism.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the whiteness of science fiction and the speculative fiction of blackness
  • Josh Brandon's blues: inventing the black fan
  • Space race woman: Lieutenant Uhura beyond the bridge
  • The immortal storm: permutations of race in Marvel comics
  • Controversy and crossover in milestone media's icon
  • The golden ghetto and the glittering parentheses: the once and future Benjamin Sisko
  • Dreaming in color: racial revisions in fan fiction
  • Coda.

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