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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thaler, Ingrid, 1974-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2009.
Series:	Routledge research in Atlantic studies ; 2.
Subjects:	American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism. American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Literature and folklore > United States > History > 20th century. African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century. African Americans in literature. African Americans > Folklore. Folklore in literature.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: White genres, Black traditions? Anansi, Peter Parker, and other tropes
The meaning of the past? allegory in Octavia E. Butler's Wild seed
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: the virtual subculture of Black Atlantic speculative fiction play it forward: Black Atlantic speculative fiction and its futures.