1st Edition

The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction

By Sharon DeGraw Copyright 2007
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

While the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity constructed in American SF. In his Mars series, Edgar Rice Burroughs primarily supported essentialist constructions of racial identity, but also included a few elements of racial egalitarianism. Writing in the 1930s, George S. Schuyler revised... Read more

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Burroughs

Chapter 2: Schuyler

Chapter 3: Delany

Appendix: Timeline

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Biography

Sharon Degraw