LEADER 03945nam 2200733 450 001 9910765884803321 005 20230912132538.0 010 $a0-203-94448-8 010 $a1-135-86458-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000685229 035 $a(EBL)4531766 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001674122 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16473004 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001674122 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13384022 035 $a(PQKB)11177285 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4531766 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35369 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7244871 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000685229 100 $a20160611h20162007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe subject of race in American science fiction /$fSharon DeGraw 210 $cTaylor & Francis$d2007 210 1$aLondon, [England] ;$aNew York, New York :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (180 p.) 225 1 $aLiterary Criticism and Cultural Theory 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-80289-X 311 $a0-415-97901-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One Burroughs; Chapter Two Schuyler; Chapter Three Delany; Appendix Timeline; Notes; Works Cited; Index 330 $aWhile the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity constructed in American SF. In his Mars series, Edgar Rice Burroughs primarily supported essentialist constructions of racial identity, but also included a few elements of racial egalitarianism. Writing in the 1930s, George S. Schuyler revised Burroughs' normative SF triangle of white author, white audience, and white protagonist and promoted an individualistic, highly variable concept of race instead. While both Burroughs and Schuyler wrote SF focusing on racial identity, the largely separate genres of science fiction and African American literature prevented the similarities between the two authors from being adequately acknowledged and explored. Beginning in the 1960s, Samuel R. Delany more fully joined SF and African American literature. Delany expands on Schuyler's racial constructionist approach to identity, including gender and sexuality in addition to race. Critically intertwining the genres of SF and African American literature allows a critique of the racism in the science fiction and a more accurate and positive portrayal of the scientific connections in the African American literature. Connecting the popular fiction of Burroughs, the controversial career of Schuyler, and the postmodern texts of Delany illuminates a gradual change from a stable, essentialist construction of racial identity at the turn of the century to the variable, social construction of poststructuralist subjectivity today. 410 0$aLiterary criticism and cultural theory. 606 $aScience fiction, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRace in literature 606 $aSubjectivity in literature 610 $aedgar 610 $arice 610 $aburroughs 610 $agenre 610 $aschuylers 610 $ablack 610 $acommunity 610 $afarnhams 610 $afreehold 610 $astar 615 0$aScience fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRace in literature. 615 0$aSubjectivity in literature. 676 $a813/.0876209355 700 $aDeGraw$b Sharon$cPh.D,$01369529 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910765884803321 996 $aThe subject of race in American science fiction$93395753 997 $aUNINA