Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction
Description
Speculative fiction often shows the complicated and rather fraught history of medicine as it relates to black women. Through prominent writers like Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, and Nalo Hopkinson, Jones highlights how personal experiences of illness and disease frequently reflect larger societal sicknesses in connection to race and gender.
Keywords
Literary CriticismModern20th CenturySemiotics & TheorySocial ScienceGender StudiesAmericanFictionLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & ComparativeAnthropologyCultural & Social
2015Book
Author(s)Esther L. Jones
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9781137520609
LanguageEnglish
