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Race in American Science Fiction / Isiah Lavender III.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lavender, Isiah.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race in literature.
- Science fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Science fiction, American.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 and how it is silenced in science fiction, while developing a critical vocabulary designed to focus attention on often-overlooked racial implications. These focused readings of science fiction contextualize race
- Contents:
- Introduction: mapping the Blackground
- Racing science fiction
- Meta-slavery
- Jim Crow extrapolations
- Ailments of race
- Ethnoscapes
- Technologically derived ethnicities
- Epilogue: science fictioning race.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-260) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780253005137
- 0253005132
- OCLC:
- 707918264
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