Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)Ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction

by Sami Schalk

Book Overview

In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds--the intertwinement of the mental and the physical--in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre's political potential lies in the authors' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality's limitations. She reads (dis)ability...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822370883
• ISBN13: 9780822370888
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"