Afrofuturism rising : the literary prehistory of a movement /

Explores afrofuturism as a narrative practice by applying it to canonical African American literary texts by Wheatley, Walker, Douglass, Jacobs, Delany, Hopkins, Hurston and Wright, trans-historically rereads the texts as science fiction and argues that the black experience of spatial and temporal d...

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Main Author: Lavender, Isiah, III (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2019]
Series:New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative.
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Summary:Explores afrofuturism as a narrative practice by applying it to canonical African American literary texts by Wheatley, Walker, Douglass, Jacobs, Delany, Hopkins, Hurston and Wright, trans-historically rereads the texts as science fiction and argues that the black experience of spatial and temporal dislocation in America is akin to science fiction.
Physical Description:xi, 230 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-215) and index.
ISBN:9780814214138
0814214134
9780814255568
0814255566