LEADER 00000cam 2200445 a 4500 001 72015270805 003 UkLCURL 008 090610s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng 020 9780415804417|q(cased) 020 0415804418|q(cased) 035 (Uk)015270805 040 StDuBDS|beng|cStDuBDS|dUk 049 |jCU|k72015270805|lb 050 4 PS 153 N5 T3 082 00 813.5409896073|222 100 1 Thaler, Ingrid,|d1974- 245 10 Black Atlantic speculative fictions :|bOctavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson /|cIngrid Thaler. 260 New York :|bRoutledge,|c2010. 300 193 p. ;|c24 cm. 440 0 Routledge research in Atlantic studies ;|v2 505 0 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. 600 10 Butler, Octavia E. 600 10 Gomez, Jewelle,|d1948-.|tGilda stories. 600 10 Hopkinson, Nalo.|tMidnight robber. 650 0 American fiction|xAfrican American authors|xHistory and criticism. 650 0 American fiction|xWomen authors|xHistory and criticism. 650 0 American fiction|y20th century|xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Literature and folklore|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 650 0 African Americans|xIntellectual life|y20th century. 650 0 African Americans in literature. 650 0 African Americans|vFolklore. 650 0 Folklore in literature.
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