Richardson, Matt, 1969-2015-11-092018-01-222015-11-092018-01-222015-08August 201http://hdl.handle.net/2152/32335textThe 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.application/pdfenGrim fantasyBlack womenOctavia ButlerAlexis De VeauxQueer studiesLiteratureThesis2015-11-09