Ebook: Medicine and ethics in Black women’s speculative fiction
Author: Jones Esther L.
- Tags: American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism, American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism, Women Black in literature, Medicine in literature, Ethics in literature, Futurism (Literary movement), Science fiction American -- History and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General, American fiction -- African American authors, American fiction -- Women authors, Science fiction American
- Series: Palgrave studies in literature science and medicine.
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition: First edition.
- Language: English
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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.