Black Atlantic speculative fictions : Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson / Ingrid Thaler.

• Introduction: White genres, Black traditions? Anansi, Peter Parker, and other tropes -- The meaning of the past? allegory in Octavia E. Butler's Wild seed (1980) -- Traveling through time: vampire fiction and the Black Atlantic in Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda stories (1991) -- Dystopian future and utopian vision: surviving apocalypse in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the sower (1993) -- A better future? ambiguity, cyberpunk, and Caribbean syncretism in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight robber (2000) -- Conclusion.

Ämnesord

Afro-amerikanska författare  (sao)

Kvinnliga författare  (sao)

Folkdiktning  (sao)

Amerikansk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

African Americans in literature.  (LCSH)

Folklore in literature.  (LCSH)

American fiction  -- African American authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

American fiction  -- Women authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Literature and folklore  -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

African Americans  -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. (LCSH)

African Americans  -- Folklore. (LCSH)

African Americans.  (fast)

African Americans in literature.  (fast)

Folklore in literature.  (fast)

Literature and folklore.  (fast)

African Americans  -- Intellectual life. (fast)

American fiction  -- African American authors. (fast)

American fiction  -- Women authors. (fast)

African American authors  (LCSH)

Women authors  (LCSH)

Folklore  (LCSH)

Förenta staterna  (sao)

United States.  (fast)

1900-talet  (sao)

1900-1999  (fast)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

Folklore.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Klassifikation

PS153.N5 (LCC)

813.5409896073 (DDC)