Thanks. I sadly can't take credit for Children of Men, heyiya suggested it but I think the specifically the film has a lot to say about race and class confluence. Plus you know I love it despite the flip-flop action though it did teach us the sturdy footwear is imperative when the apocalypse comes!
There are a few texts on my list that are a bit liminal like that--specifically "Kynship" which is allegory and "The Bone Whistle" where the father of the protagonist is not strictly speaking human at all--but I think all three of these texts allow for the exploration of the creation of women of color protagonists and the definition of that in the relationship of character to the creator's own positionality on the spectrum of identity.
Totally cool. It's been a long time since I read Nausicaa, and all I remember is a fantasy culture.
I was going to say, if it's open for graphic novels, I can look through my collection, since there's probably a really apt story or two that might fit... not to mention obvious stuff like Artesia.
I'm glad you posted this list. I was really skeptical/avoidant of sci-fi/speculative/fantasy works until I was a sophomore in college and had to read Octavia Butler for a Women and Literature course. It was a hugely freeing and simultaneously depressing revelation that women of color were writing in the genre. The gaps in curricula for middle and high schools are appalling.
I think, if you let us know when you're starting your reading, I might read along.
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also, great idea using the children of men movie.
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There are a few texts on my list that are a bit liminal like that--specifically "Kynship" which is allegory and "The Bone Whistle" where the father of the protagonist is not strictly speaking human at all--but I think all three of these texts allow for the exploration of the creation of women of color protagonists and the definition of that in the relationship of character to the creator's own positionality on the spectrum of identity.
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I was going to say, if it's open for graphic novels, I can look through my collection, since there's probably a really apt story or two that might fit... not to mention obvious stuff like Artesia.
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I think, if you let us know when you're starting your reading, I might read along.
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