..................................................................................................................... ... Dedication....................................................................................................................... Acknowledgments............................................................................................................ Vita................................................................................................................................... Chapters: 1. Always Already Alien: The Case of Black Women Writing Speculative Fictions.... Black Literature and the Problem of Genre........................................................ Multiply Liminal Discourse as an Interpretive Framework................................ When Lions Write History: Multiply Liminal Discourse Applied .................... The Basis for Cross-Cultural Comparison of Speculative Fiction ..................... 2. To Serve Two Gods: Science and Mythology in the Construction of Indigenous History in Aline França’s A Mulher de Aleduma................................................ Race, Class, Literature: Social, Historical and Cultural Constraints and the Virtual Absence of African Brazilian Fiction .................................................... The Formation of African Brazilian Literature ................................................. To Be a Black Female Brazilian Science Fiction Writer: An Emblematic Experience in Multiple Liminality...................................................................... Reclaiming Black Womanhood.............................................................. The Spiritual Leadership of Black Women................................ Sexual and Spiritual Integration.................................................. Mother Love............................................................................... Hybrid African Spiritual Epistemology.............................................................. Quilombagem: The Construction of African-Brazilian Diasporic Space........... Indigenous History as Hybrid Mytho-Scientific Genre....................................... 3. "The Spirit of Breaking the Rules:" Technology, Spirituality, and Genre Subversion in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring and Erna Brodber's Louisiana................... Page ii iv v vi