02569oam 22006014a 450 991097463860332120240513232532.097802530051370253005132(CKB)2560000000061993(EBL)670271(OCoLC)707918264(SSID)ssj0000472533(PQKBManifestationID)11302761(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000472533(PQKBWorkID)10434211(PQKB)10408251(OCoLC)707091257(MdBmJHUP)muse17075(MiAaPQ)EBC670271(Perlego)3172653(EXLCZ)99256000000006199320100416d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRace in American Science Fiction /Isiah Lavender III1st ed.Bloomington Indiana University Pressc20111 online resource (287 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780253222596 0253222591 9780253355539 0253355532 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 Isiah1809880MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910974638603321Race in American Science Fiction4360896UNINA