Jason Haslam

Gender, Race, and American Science Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

Reflections on Fantastic Identities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book focusses on gender and race, and their representation in American SF, from the 19C to the present, and in forms including literature and film. It explores how SF provides a rich medium for both the preservation of and challenges to dominant mythologies of gender and race. Defining SF linguistically and culturally, it shows that SF not only illuminates the cultural and social histories of gender and race, but so too can it intervene in those histories, and highlight the ruptures present within them. Arguing that SF must become central to discussions of identity, this book contributes to SF, American literature and culture, Whiteness Studies, and critical gender and race studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317574248
• Artikelnr.: 42832705

Autorenporträt

Jason Haslam is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University, Canada

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "Kindred Mysteries": The Fantastic Identities of SF Part I:
Race/Gender/Science/Fiction 1. "The races of mankind": The Race of Gender
in "The Birth-mark" and Mizora 2. The Whiteness of Manly Pulp from Tarzan's
Jungle to Buck Rogers' Phalectrocentrism Part II: Virtual Whiteness 3. The
Möbius Strip of Identity and Privilege in Black No More 4. Coded Discourse:
Romancing the (Electronic) Shadow in The Matrix Part III: Muting Utopia 5.
Bridging Divides in The Santaroga Barrier and All Tomorrow's Parties 6.
Octavia Butler's Exceptional Minds, Collective Identities, and the Moynihan
Report Afterword: The Robot's Howl: Fritz Lang, Allen Ginsberg, and SF as
Death Drive