Gesammelte Werke / Franz Kafka ; herausgegeben von Max Brod

• Record Nr.: UNIBAS000008604
• Autore: Kafka, Franz
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Frankfurt am Main : <<S.>> Fischer
• Descrizione fisica: volumi ; 20 cm.
• Disciplina: 833.91
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Race in American Science Fiction [[electronic resource] /] / Isiah Lavender III

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791845003321
• Autore: Lavender Isiah
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2011
• ISBN: 0-253-00513-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.0876209355
• Soggetti: Race in literature; Science fiction, American - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-260) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: mapping the Blackground -- Racing science fiction -- Meta-slavery -- Jim Crow extrapolations -- Ailments of race -- Ethnoscapes -- Technologically derived ethnicities -- Epilogue: science fictioning race.
• Sommario/riassunto: Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III argues that racial ; alterity is fundamental to the genre's narrative strategy. Race in American Science Fiction offers a systematic classification of ways that race appears and how it is silenced in science fiction, while developing a critical vocabulary designed to focus attention on often-overlooked racial implications. These focused readings of science fiction contextualize race