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Into darkness peering : race and color in the fantastic

Author: Elisabeth Anne Leonard
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.
Series: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 74.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Into darkness peering.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997
(OCoLC)605250832
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Elisabeth Anne Leonard
ISBN: 0313300429 9780313300424
OCLC Number: 36343373
Description: viii, 198 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction: "Into darkness peering"--race and color in the fantastic / Elisabeth Anne Leonard --
Mixed genres and true heritages: from Trollope's Ralph the heir to Delany's Dhalgren / Donald M. Hassler --
Octavia E. Butler: parables of race and difference / Teri Ann Doerksen --
Exploring color coding at the beginning and end of the twentieth century in Usula K. Le Guin's The left hand of darkness and Joseph Conrad's Heart of darkness / Lisbeth Gant-Britton --
Race and color coding in Leslie F. Stone's "The human pets of Mars": reflections for the repertoire of the multicultural classroom / Batya Weinbaum --
"You don't know what you are talking about": Robert A. Heinlein and the racism of American science fiction / Gary Westfahl --
Race and subjectivity in science fiction: deterritorializing the self/other dichotomy / Ellen Bishop --
The excesses of cyberpunk: why no one mentions race in cyberspace / Philip E. Baruth --
Creole identity politics, race and Star Trek: Voyager / Neal Baker --
Reclaiming the invisible world: Maryse Condé's I, Tituba, Black witch of Salem / Faye Ringel --
Reading King darkly: issues of race in Stephen King's novels / Samantha Figliola --
Enlightening the alien savages: colonialism in the novels of Robert Silverberg / John Flodstrom --
"Differences make me curious": race, sexuality, and class in The chronicles of Tornor / Elisabeth Anne Leonard
Series Title: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 74.
Responsibility: edited by Elisabeth Anne Leonard.

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