Gender, Race, and American Science Fiction: Reflections on Fantastic Identities

ISBN-13: 9781138547773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 248 str.

Jason Haslam

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Awarded an honorable mention for the 2016 Robert K. Martin Book Prize competition

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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