The 2012 meeting of NEPCA will convene at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York, from 26 to 27 October. The call for papers for the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area is now available. Please consider submitting a proposal. Archive lists of past session can be accessed via the following links: 2010 and 2011.

Friday, December 30, 2011

American Literature Special Issue


I've been meaning to post this for a while:

American Literature
Volume 83, Number 2 (June 2011)

Speculative Fictions

Contents
Gerry Canavan and Priscilla Wald
Preface 237

Mark Chia-Yon Jerng
A World of Difference: Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren and the Protocols of Racial Reading 251

Nathaniel Williams
Frank Reade, Jr., in Cuba: Dime-Novel Technology, U.S. Imperialism, and the “American Jules Verne” 279

Aaron Bady
Tarzan’s White Flights: Terrorism and Fantasy before and after the Airplane 305

David M. Higgins
Toward a Cosmopolitan Science Fiction 331

Ramzi Fawaz
“Where No X-Man Has Gone Before!” Mutant Superheroes and the Cultural Politics of Popular Fantasy in Postwar America 355

Robert F. Reid-Pharr
Clean: Death and Desire in Samuel R. Delany’s Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 389

Everett Hamner
The Predisposed Agency of Genomic Fiction 413

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