Race in American Science Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Isiah Lavender, III Klappentext 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 within the genre's better-known master narratives and agendas. Authors discussed include Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and Ursula K. Le Guin, among many others. Zusammenfassung Blackness in a white genre Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Mapping the Blackground 1. Racing Science Fiction 2. Meta-slavery 3. Jim Crow Extrapolations 4. Ailments of Race 5. Ethnoscapes 6. Technologically Derived Ethnicities Epilogue: Science Fictioning Race Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Isiah Lavender, Isiah III Lavender, Lavender Isiah III
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.02.2011
• EAN: 9780253222596
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22259-6
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies