Black Atlantic speculative fictions
Subtitle: Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson
By: by Ingrid Thaler.
Series: Routledge research in Atlantic studies -- no. 2
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415804417
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
Genres: Folklore
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; 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: the virtual subculture of Black Atlantic speculative fiction play it forward: Black Atlantic speculative fiction and its futures.