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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press,
[2019]
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 230 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-215) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814214138 0814214134 9780814255568 0814255566 |