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Bodyminds Reimagined
(Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction
Taschenbuch von Sami Schalk
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Sami Schalk
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue and Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Metaphor and Materiality: Disability and Neo-Slave Narratives 33
2. Whose Reality Is It Anyway? Deconstructing Able-Mindedness 59
3. The Future of Bodyminds, Bodyminds of the Future 85
4. Defamiliarizing (Dis)ability, Race, Gender, and Sexuality 113
Conclusion 137
Notes 147
Bibliography 159
Index 175
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 192
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822370888
ISBN-10: 0822370883
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Schalk, Sami
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: Sami Schalk
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.03.2018
Gewicht: 0,287 kg
preigu-id: 109023513
Über den Autor
Sami Schalk
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue and Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Metaphor and Materiality: Disability and Neo-Slave Narratives 33
2. Whose Reality Is It Anyway? Deconstructing Able-Mindedness 59
3. The Future of Bodyminds, Bodyminds of the Future 85
4. Defamiliarizing (Dis)ability, Race, Gender, and Sexuality 113
Conclusion 137
Notes 147
Bibliography 159
Index 175
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 192
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822370888
ISBN-10: 0822370883
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Schalk, Sami
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: Sami Schalk
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.03.2018
Gewicht: 0,287 kg
preigu-id: 109023513
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