Speculative fiction often shows the complicated and rather fraught history of medicine as it relates to black women. Through prominent writers like Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, and Nalo Hopkinson, Jones highlights how personal experiences of illness and disease frequently reflect larger societal sicknesses in connection to race and gender.
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Esther L. Jones is an Assistant Professor of English at Clark University, USA.
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Introduction: Eating Salt: Black Women's Health and the Politics of Difference in Medicine 1. The Black Girl's Burden: Eugenics, Genomics, and Genocide in Octavia Butler's 2. The Unbearable Burden of Culture: Sexual Violence, Women's Power, and Cultural Ethics in Nnedi Okorafor's 3. Organ Donation, Mythic Medicine, and Madness in Nalo Hopkinson's 4. "I Mean to Survive": Feminist Disability Theory and Womanist Survival Ethics in Octavia Butler's Conclusion: Blood, Salt, and Tears: Theorizing Difference in the Black Feminist Speculative Tradition