Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Patton, Venetria K

Titel

Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk (review)

Ist Teil von

• Modern Fiction Studies, 2019-10, Vol.65 (3), p.563-566

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• According to Schalk, these readings "limit our understanding of disability in the novels by interpreting hyperempathy in relatively static ways that often ignore or contradict important information about this nonrealist disability provided by Lauren and other sharers in the novels" (95). According to Schalk, defamiliarization refers "to the way speculative fiction texts make the familiar social concepts of (dis)ability, race, gender, and sexuality unfamiliar in order to encourage readers to question the meanings and boundaries of these categories" (114). [...]she asserts, "by altering and defamiliarizing (dis)ability, race, and gender, black women's speculative fiction also highlights the ways oppressions resulting from these systems can overlap, intersect, support, and sustain one another in real-world power dynamics and interactions" (139).