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Revitalizing the Present and Reimagining the Future by Renewing the Past: Reconstructing Race and Gender in Contemporary African American Science Fiction

Panel: 
Science Fiction II: Race, Gender, and the Body
Abstract: 

This paper will examine the contemporary African American science fiction of Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979) and Steven Barnes’ Lion’s Blood (2002) which historically reconstructs or re-imagines the African American cultural experience to understand the modern condition of racial and gender power dynamics.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Dierdre
Last Name: 
Powell
Institution: 
Anne Arundel Community College