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Bodyminds Reimagined – (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women′s Speculative Fiction

Autor Sami Schalk
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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.
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ISBN-13: 9780822370888
ISBN-10: 0822370883
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 166 x 230 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

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

Notă biografică

Sami Schalk

Descriere

Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability, showing how the genre's exploration of bodyminds that exist outside of the present open up new social and ethical possibilities.