Medicine and ethics in Black women's speculative fiction. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Esther L. Jones.
• Authors: Jones, Esther L, 1976-
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Eating Salt: Black Women's Health and the Politics of Difference in Medicine -- 1. The Black Girl's Burden: Eugenics, Genomics, and Genocide in Octavia Butler's Fledgling -- 2. The Unbearable Burden of Culture: Sexual Violence, Women's Power and Cultural Ethics in Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death -- 3. Organ Donation, Mythic Medicine and Madness in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring -- 4. "I Mean to Survive": Feminist Disability Theory and Womanist Survival Ethics in Octavia Butler's Parables -- Conclusion: Blood, Salt, and Tears: Theorizing Difference in the Black Feminist Speculative Tradition.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (204 pages)
• Subjects: 813.009/896073; Science Fiction & Fantasy; American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women, Black, in literature; Medicine in literature; Ethics in literature; Futurism (Literary movement); Science fiction, American -- History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American; LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors; American/General; Women Authors; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Literary studies: from c 1900; Literary studies: general
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137514721; 1137514728
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.