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

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 demons...

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Main Author: Schalk, Samantha Dawn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
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