Demonic tendencies of the grim fantasy : writing Black women in Octavia Butler's Kindred and Alexis De Veaux's Yabo

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dc.contributor.advisorRichardson, Matt, 1969-en
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMinich, Julie Aen
dc.creatorMosley, William Harold, IIIen
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-09T19:47:40Zen
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-22T22:28:59Z
dc.date.available2015-11-09T19:47:40Zen
dc.date.available2018-01-22T22:28:59Z
dc.date.issued2015-08en
dc.date.submittedAugust 2015en
dc.date.updated2015-11-09T19:47:40Zen
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractThe grim fantasy genre was once a product of Butler's resistant strategies against women's erasure from science fiction, fantasy, and slave narratives. The baton has been passed to De Veux in this never ending-fight against neoliberal impulses to white wash a horrid history of anti-black torture and the destruction of women's selfhood. Connecting Butler's concept, grim fantasy, with Wynter's concept, demonic grounds, allows for a productive reading of Kindred and Yabo's ambiguous and complex conclusions. Exploring the unwritten geographies with literature reveals a lacking in black women subject formation that was a product of systematic onslaught against them.en
dc.description.departmentEnglishen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2PS53en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/32335en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectGrim fantasyen
dc.subjectBlack womenen
dc.subjectOctavia Butleren
dc.subjectAlexis De Veauxen
dc.subjectQueer studiesen
dc.subjectLiteratureen
dc.titleDemonic tendencies of the grim fantasy : writing Black women in Octavia Butler's Kindred and Alexis De Veaux's Yaboen
dc.typeThesisen

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