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Bodyminds reimagined : (dis)ability, race, and gender in black women's speculative fiction
- Title
- Bodyminds reimagined : (dis)ability, race, and gender in black women's speculative fiction / Sami Schalk.
- Author
- Schalk, Samantha Dawn
- Publication
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- x, 180 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds - the intertwinement of the mental and the physical - in the context of race, gender and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory and disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre's political potential lies in the authors' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality's limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-slave narratives by Octavia Butler ("Kindred") and Phyllis Alesia Perry ("Stigmata") not only as representing the literal injuries suffered under slavery, but also as a metaphor for the legacy of racial violence. The fantasy worlds in works by N.K. Jemisin, Shawntelle Madison, and Nalo Hopkinson - where werewolves have obsessive-compulsive disorder and blind demons can see magic - destabilize social categories and definitions of the human, calling into question the very nature of identity. In these texts, as well as in Butler's "Parable" series, able-mindedness and able-bodiedness are socially constructed and upheld through racial and gendered norms. Outlining (dis)ability's centrality to speculative fiction, Schalk shows how these works open up new social possibilities while changing conceptualizations of identity and oppression through nonrealist contexts.
- Alternative Title
- Body minds reimagined : disability, race, and gender in black women's speculative fiction
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-174) and index.
- Contents
- Metaphor and materiality: disability and neo-slave narratives -- Whose reality is it anyway? deconstructing able-mindedness -- The future of bodyminds, bodyminds of the future -- Defamiliarizing (dis)ability, race, gender, and sexuality.
- Call Number
- Sc E 18-877
- ISBN
- 9780822370734
- 0822370735
- 9780822370888
- 0822370883
- 9780822371830 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2017036970
- 99976217917
- OCLC
- 985689502
- Author
- Schalk, Samantha Dawn, author.
- Title
- Bodyminds reimagined : (dis)ability, race, and gender in black women's speculative fiction / Sami Schalk.
- Publisher
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-174) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 99976217917
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 18-877