The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction
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 includ...
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| description | 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 Burroughs' normative SF triangle of white author, white audience, and white protagonist and promoted an individualistic, highly variable concept of race instead. While both Burroughs and Schuyler wrote SF focusing on racial identity, the largely separate genres of science fiction and African American literature prevented the similarities between the two authors from being adequately acknowledged and explored. Beginning in the 1960s, Samuel R. Delany more fully joined SF and African American literature. Delany expands on Schuyler's racial constructionist approach to identity, including gender and sexuality in addition to race. Critically intertwining the genres of SF and African American literature allows a critique of the racism in the science fiction and a more accurate and positive portrayal of the scientific connections in the African American literature. Connecting the popular fiction of Burroughs, the controversial career of Schuyler, and the postmodern texts of Delany illuminates a gradual change from a stable, essentialist construction of racial identity at the turn of the century to the variable, social construction of poststructuralist subjectivity today. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1609012025-05-31T05:32:56Z The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction DeGraw, Sharon edgar rice burroughs genre schuylers black community farnhams freehold star Young Men Science Fiction Genre Schuyler’s Black Science Fiction Science Fiction Community Collective Racial Identity Farnham’s Freehold Science Fiction Texts Star Folk African American Science Fiction Mars Series Destroyer’s Children Black Empire Tarzan Series Early Science Fiction Traditional Science Fiction Caucasian Problem Green Martians Western Progress African American Literature thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies 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 Burroughs' normative SF triangle of white author, white audience, and white protagonist and promoted an individualistic, highly variable concept of race instead. While both Burroughs and Schuyler wrote SF focusing on racial identity, the largely separate genres of science fiction and African American literature prevented the similarities between the two authors from being adequately acknowledged and explored. Beginning in the 1960s, Samuel R. Delany more fully joined SF and African American literature. Delany expands on Schuyler's racial constructionist approach to identity, including gender and sexuality in addition to race. Critically intertwining the genres of SF and African American literature allows a critique of the racism in the science fiction and a more accurate and positive portrayal of the scientific connections in the African American literature. Connecting the popular fiction of Burroughs, the controversial career of Schuyler, and the postmodern texts of Delany illuminates a gradual change from a stable, essentialist construction of racial identity at the turn of the century to the variable, social construction of poststructuralist subjectivity today. 2025-05-31T05:32:55Z 2025-05-31T05:32:55Z 2025-05-30T06:45:01Z 2006 book ONIX_20250530T083217_9781135864590_71 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/103118 9781135864590 9780415802895 9781135864545 9781135864583 9780415979016 9780203944486 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160901 eng Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/103118/1/9781135864590.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780203944486 10.4324/9780203944486 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781135864590 9780415802895 9781135864545 9781135864583 9780415979016 9780203944486 Routledge 240 Oxford open access |
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