Medicine And Ethics In Black Women's Speculative Fiction Hardcover
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Esther L. Jones
Book 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.
ISBN-10
1137520604
ISBN-13
9781137520609
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Date
26 Aug 2015
About the Author
Esther L. Jones is an Assistant Professor of English at Clark University, USA.
Editorial Review
This is a work that invites all to 'eat salt together,' to understand the historical and sociopolitical complexities of black female difference that have affected and infected the national body politic. Jones's prescription is clear and fresh: black women's speculative fiction offers alternate epistemologies and methodologies for good physical and spiritual health. - Valerie Lee, Professor of English, The Ohio State University, USA