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Author:

Thaler, Ingrid, 1974-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

193 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--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.
Folklore in literature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 (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.

Series:

Routledge research in Atlantic studies ; 2

ISBN:

0415804418
9780415804417

OCLC:

(OCoLC)391420042

LCCN:

2009023778

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)