The Antipatriarchal Male Monster as Limited (Anti)Hero in Richard K. Morgan's Black Man/Thirteen.
The analysis of gender in science fiction tends to focus on women. Here I focus instead on the gender issues concerning masculinity raised in Black Man/Thirteen, a novel by British writer Richard Morgan. Using the framework of masculinity studies, I argue that whereas Morgan launches a thorough atta...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 84 - 104 |
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University of California Press
Mar2017
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