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1 online resource (x, 180 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
| Summary |
In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk 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 with 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 new social possibilities while changing conceptualizations of identity and oppression through nonrealist contexts. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- African American authors. |
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Speculative fiction -- 20th century -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Speculative fiction. |
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20th century |
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Women authors. |
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People with disabilities in literature.
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Race in literature.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Gender identity in literature. |
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People with disabilities in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. |
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Race in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American. |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Literary criticism.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schalk, Samantha Dawn. Bodyminds reimagined. Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2018] 9780822370734 (DLC) 2017036970 (OCoLC)985689502 |
| ISBN |
9780822371830 (electronic book) |
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0822371839 (electronic book) |
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9780822370734 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0822370735 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780822370888 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0822370883 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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