Black Atlantic speculative fictions
Subtitle: Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson
By: Ingrid Thaler
Series: Routledge research in Atlantic studies -- 2; Routledge research in Atlantic studies -- 2.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780415804417
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: White genres, Black traditions? Anansi, Peter Parker, and other tropes; title: The meaning of the past? allegory in Octavia E. Butler's Wild seed (1980); title: Traveling through time: vampire fiction and the Black Atlantic in Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda stories (1991); title: Dystopian future and utopian vision: surviving apocalypse in Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the sower (1993); title: A better future? ambiguity, cyberpunk, and Caribbean syncretism in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight robber (2000); title: Conclusion.