Literary Afrofuturism in the twenty-first century /
"Explores the cultural valence of Afrofuturism. It examines works by a wide range of authors, including Phyllis Wheatley, Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler, and N.K. Jemisin"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative.
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Table of Contents:
- Part one: Afrofuturism now. Author roundtable on Afrofuturism / Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek
- Dangerous muses : black women writers creating at the forefront of Afrofuturism / Sheree R. Thomas
- Part two: Afrofuturism in literary history. This time for Africa! Afrofuturism as alternate (American) history / De Witt Douglas Kilgore
- Middle age, mer people, and the Middle Passage: Nalo Hopkinson's Afrofuturist journeying in The new moon's arms / Gina Wisker
- Young adult Afrofuturism / Rebecca Holden
- Part three: Afrofuturism in cultural history. Space/race : recovering John M. Faucette / Mark Bould
- Runoff : Afroaquanauts in landscapes of sacrifice / Elizabeth A. Wheeler
- Black futures matter : Afrofuturism and geontology in N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy / Lisa Dowdall
- Part four: Afrofuturism and Africa. We are terror itself : Wakanda as nation / Gerry Canavan
- Global Afrofuturist ecologies / Jerome Winter
- "You can't go home again" : Deji Bryce Olukotun's Nigerians in space, science fiction, and global interdependence / Marleen S. Barr
- Faster than before : science fiction in Amos Tutuola's The palm-wine drinkard / Nedine Moonsamy
- Coda : Wokeness and Afrofuturism / Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek.