자료유형 | 학위논문 |
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서명/저자사항 | Voices with Vision: Writing Black, Feminist Futures in Twentieth Century African America. |
개인저자 | Alexander, Phoenix. |
단체저자명 | Yale University. African American Studies / English Language and Literature. |
발행사항 | [S.l.]: Yale University., 2019. |
발행사항 | Ann Arbor: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019. |
형태사항 | 218 p. |
기본자료 저록 | Dissertations Abstracts International 81-04A. Dissertation Abstract International |
ISBN | 9781687910257 |
학위논문주기 | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2019. |
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Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-04, Section: A.
Advisor: Goldsby, Jacqueline D. |
이용제한사항 | This item must not be sold to any third party vendors. |
요약 | Centered around the Octavia E. Butler papers at the Huntington Library, my dissertation traces a black, feminist genealogy of science fiction across the twentieth century, reading this generic formation in the context of key developments in the history of science and medicine in the US. I argue that the idea of the archive serves as a future-oriented and speculative process in its own right, and one through which particularly marginalized subjects can forge what Carla Peterson calls a "home place". I read the archive as a structure that at once acts as shelter and authority and a foundation for black women's speculative literature. I stress that this act of recording one's own words and life is especially urgent in light of the various narratives of extinction and pathology that have been applied to African American populations across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.It is this interpellation of elements that lead me to read Butler as central figure within a genre that Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have defined as "visionary fiction... a term... to distinguish science fiction that has relevance towards building newer, freer worlds from the mainstream strain of science fiction, which most often reinforces dominant narratives of power". This distinction informs my project in tracing the long history of what "visionary" writing - moving beyond fiction to cover such archival forms as notecards, letters, hastily-scrawled budgets, lectures and so on - centered around black, feminist textual practices, might look like. |
일반주제명 | American literature. African American studies. Gender studies. |
언어 | 영어 |
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