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Podcast: New Books in Disability Studies
Episode: Sami Schalk, âBodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Womenâs Speculative Fictionâ (Duke UP, 2018)
Description: What do werewolves, enslaved women and immortal beings have in common? And how can they shed light on contemporary questions of ableism and police brutality? In Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Womenâs Speculative Fiction (Duke University Press, 2018), Sami Schalk argues that black womenâs speculative fiction changes the rules of literary and textual interpretation by opening up productive spaces of conversation at the intersection of (dis)ability, race and gender. Schalk undertakes a close reading of a variety of genres of speculative fiction including science fiction and neo-slave narratives by authors such as Octavia Butl...