Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction

1. Introduction
Esther L. Jones

2. The Black Girl’s Burden: Eugenics, Genomics and Genocide in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling

Esther L. Jones

3. The Unbearable Burden of Culture: Sexual Violence, Women’s Power and Cultural Ethics in Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death

Esther L. Jones

4. Organ Donation, Mythic Medicine and Madness in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring

Esther L. Jones

5. “I Mean to Survive”: Feminist Disability Theory and Womanist Survival Ethics in Octavia Butler’s Parables

Esther L. Jones

6. Conclusion: Blood, Salt and Tears: Theorizing Difference in the Black Feminist Speculative Tradition
Esther L. Jones

Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Gender Studies, North American Literature, Fiction