Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III argues that racial alterity is fundamental to the genre's narrative strategy. Race in American Science Fiction offers a systematic classification of ways that race appears and how it is silenced in science fiction, while developing a critical vocabulary designed to focus attention on often-overlooked racial implications. These focused readings of science fiction contextualize race within the genre's better-known master narratives and agendas. Authors discussed include Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and Ursula K. Le Guin, among many others.
- ISBN10 0253355532
- ISBN13 9780253355539
- Publish Date 14 March 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 May 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Indiana University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 248
- Language English