Race, Aliens, and the U.S. Government in African American Science Fiction

Race, Aliens, and the U.S. Government in African American Science Fiction
Author: Elisa Edwards
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 109
Release: 2011
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3643900902
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This thesis deals with contemporary African American science fiction. It focuses on three texts by Derrick Bell, Octavia Butler, and Walter Mosley and examines the ways in which they convert the dominantly white SF genre. By addressing non-traditional issues such as racism, racial boundaries, and the politics of species, these alien encounter stories demonstrate that it is not the intruders from outer space who are the real threat to U.S. society but their own (white) U.S. Government. Thesis. (Series: MasteRResearch - Vol. 2)