02456oam 22005414a 450 991079184500332120210114063438.00-253-00513-2(CKB)2560000000061993(EBL)670271(OCoLC)707918264(SSID)ssj0000472533(PQKBManifestationID)11302761(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000472533(PQKBWorkID)10434211(PQKB)10408251(OCoLC)707091257(MdBmJHUP)muse17075(MiAaPQ)EBC670271(EXLCZ)99256000000006199320100416d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRace in American Science Fiction[electronic resource] /Isiah Lavender IIIBloomington Indiana University Pressc20111 online resource (287 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-22259-1 0-253-35553-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-260) and index.Introduction: mapping the Blackground -- Racing science fiction -- Meta-slavery -- Jim Crow extrapolations -- Ailments of race -- Ethnoscapes -- Technologically derived ethnicities -- Epilogue: science fictioning race.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 raceRace in literatureScience fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismElectronic books. Race in literature.Science fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.813/.0876209355Lavender Isiah1476495MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910791845003321Race in American Science Fiction3691185UNINA