Into darkness peering : race and color in the fantastic / edited by Elisabeth Anne Leonard.

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Other Authors: Leonard, Anne, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.
Series:Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 74
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Table of 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
  • "Differnces make me curious": race, sexuality, and class in The chronicles of Tornor / Elisabeth Anne Leonard