African-Brazilian Science Fiction: Aline França’s A Mulher de Aleduma
Abstract
Esther L. Jones is the E. Franklin Frazier Chair of African American Literature, Theory and Culture at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she teaches American, African American, and African Diaspora literatures. Her current book project, “Theorizing Difference: Black Women Writers and Speculative Fiction” examines the constructions of black pathology and bioethics in science fiction by contemporary women writers in the African diaspora. Examining the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, class, and disability, Jones explores historical constructions of difference within the medical establishment, the ways in which ethical paradigms and practices differentially respond to embodied difference, and black women science fiction writers’ responses to the ethics, empathy, and the politics of difference within medicine. She can be reached at [email protected].
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