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Gender, Race, and American Science Fiction - Reflections on Fantastic Identities (Paperback)
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Gender, Race, and American Science Fiction - Reflections on Fantastic Identities (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their
representation in American science fiction, from the
nineteenth-century through to the twenty-first, and across a number
of forms including literature and film. Haslam explores the reasons
why SF provides such a rich medium for both the preservation of and
challenges to dominant mythologies of gender and race. Defining SF
linguistically and culturally, the study argues that this mode is
not only able to illuminate the cultural and social histories of
gender and race, but so too can it intervene in those histories,
and highlight the ruptures present within them. The volume moves
between material history and the linguistic nature of SF fantasies,
from the specifics of race and gender at different points in
American history to larger analyses of the socio-cultural functions
of such identity categories. SF has already become central to
discussions of humanity in the global capitalist age, and is
increasingly the focus of feminist and critical race studies; in
combining these earlier approaches, this book goes further, to
demonstrate why SF must become central to our discussions of
identity writ large, of the possibilities and failings of the human
-past, present, and future. Focusing on the interplay of whiteness
and its various 'others' in relation to competing gender
constructs, chapters analyze works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary E.
Bradley Lane, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Philip Francis Nowlan, George
S. Schuyler and the Wachowskis, Frank Herbert, William Gibson, and
Octavia Butler. Academics and students interested in the study of
Science Fiction, American literature and culture, and Whiteness
Studies, as well as those engaged in critical gender and race
studies, will find this volume invaluable.
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