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100 1 $aSchalk, Samantha Dawn,$eauthor.
245 10 $aBodyminds reimagined :$b(dis)ability, race, and gender in black women's speculative fiction /$cSami Schalk.
246 3 $aBody minds reimagined :$bdisability, race, and gender in black women's speculative fiction
264 1 $aDurham ;$aLondon :$bDuke University Press,$c[2018]
264 4 $c©2018
300 $ax, 180 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [159]-174) and index.
505 0 $aMetaphor 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.
520 $aTraces 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, th author 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, the author shows how these works open up new social possibilities while changing conceptualizations of identity and oppression through nonrealist contexts.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aSpeculative fiction$y20th century$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aPeople with disabilities in literature.
650 0 $aRace in literature.
650 0 $aGender identity in literature.
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650 7 $aGender identity in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00939607
650 7 $aPeople with disabilities in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01057365
650 7 $aRace in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01086506
648 7 $a1900-1999$2fast
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
776 08 $iOnline version:$aSchalk, Samantha Dawn.$tBodyminds reimagined.$dDurham : Duke University Press, 2018$z9780822371830$w(DLC) 2018000174