Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
"Medicine and Ethics in Black Women's Speculative Fiction engages the complex nexus of black women's health, the fraught history of medicine as it relates to black women, and the problems with the inconsistent application of medical ethics that should concern us all through the lens of black women's literary speculation"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine
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